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Post Discusses Circulation, Diversity By Frank Ahrens Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 19, 2004; Page C03 Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. met with hundreds of newsroom staffers yesterday to outline management's latest attempts to combat declining circulation. However, the more intense discussion at the meeting involved diversity at the newspaper, as several minority staff members lamented that a white man recently was chosen over a woman and a black man as the paper's new managing editor. Philip Bennett, assistant managing editor for foreign news, who is white, was selected by Downie to be the paper's No. 2...

PHILIP BENNETT UPDATE By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 16, 2005 04:48 AM Washington Post managing editor Philip Bennett tells Hugh Hewitt the People’s Daily of China misquoted him--a possibility I acknowledged in the second sentence of my initial post on this topic last week. Bennett says: The version published in the People’s Daily includes numerous and important inaccuracies. In many places words and sentences were removed to change the meaning of what I said. In some places words or sentences were invented that I did not say. In one typical example, where I said “China is not a democracy”...

In an interview certain to confirm many Americans' concerns that the elite media establishment is less than patriotic, the managing editor of the Washington Post told China's official People's Daily Washington correspondent Yong Tang, "I don't think U.S. should be the leader of the world." Philip Bennett of the Post also criticized the Bush administration's foreign policy saying he did not see much evidence to suggest the U.S. is actually promoting democracy around the world as it claims. "My job is helping my readers trying to understand what is happening now," said Bennett. "What is happening now is very difficult...

Monday, March 14, 2005 The Washington Post traitorsPosted: March 14, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Should an American newsman be so "objective" he ceases to be an American? This is one of a series of questions raised in an astonishing interview given by the managing editor of the Washington Post, Philip Bennett, to a "reporter" for China's official government paper, People's Daily. In the interview, Bennett says: "I don't think U.S. should be the leader of the world." He also says he tried to keep opinions out of the news columns of the Post. If that's true, why...