A Great Newspap Owner.(appreciation of newspaper executive Katharine Graham)(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  September, 2001  by Johnson, Haynes

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In the outpouring of commentary about Katharine Graham after her sudden death July 17 at the age of 84, among the terms employed to describe her influence on journalism and national and international life were: Powerful (usually expanded to "the most powerful woman in the world"), Gutsy, Imperious, Admired, Wealthy, Feared, even Hated.

That last characterization came, naturally, from the dank recesses of the right-wing conspiratorial world, a paranoiac place in which Mrs. Graham and her Washington Post were viewed, ridiculously, as the embodiment of a biased, ...

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