The Washington Post

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  • Founded in 1877, the Washington Post is the District of Columbia's oldest newspaper, and a world leader in political news and commentary.
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    The Washington Post is generally considered the nation's premier source for political news, given its proximity to the halls of power in the nation's capital. The paper's coverage of the 1972 Watergate break-in is widely credited with setting in motion the chain of events which caused President Richard Nixon to resign, and established the Post as a paper with a strong investigative reporting emphasis. While the Post has often been criticized by conservatives for supposedly having a liberal "bias", liberals roundly criticized the paper for its editorial support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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