No, she doesn’t, not when the Graham family is sitting on the $250 million Jeff Bezos has ponied up to buy the venerable Washington Post. How long Katy will remain as publisher of the Post is undetermined—my guess is, not very long. She got the job exclusively on family ties and her tenure has been a disaster for the paper. Bezos bought the Post outright using his own cash, basically as a toy. And boys like to play with their toys.
Afterwords
Ending up with serious egg on her face in all of this is Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the reporter whom I left out of the picture while bitching about the profile of Katherine Weymouth that Sheryl wrote for the New York Times on Sunday. (To make my wisecracks slightly less incoherent, let me point out that “Jill” is Jill Abramson, executive editor of the Times, whom I accused of engineering a puff piece on behalf of the hapless Katherine). Sheryl’s piece carries with it not a hint of the notion that the Grahams (of whom Katy is one) might be trying to unload the Post, her only defense being that Katy Weymouth is a damned good liar.
