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[[File:Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier near Da Nang.jpeg|thumb|Two United States soldiers and a [[South Vietnam]]ese soldier [[Waterboarding|waterboard]] a captured [[North Vietnam]]ese prisoner during the [[Vietnam War]]; the image, which appeared on the front cover of ''The Washington Post'' on January 21, 1968, led to the court-martial of a United States soldier, although ''The Washington Post'' described waterboarding as "fairly common".<ref name=nprweiner20071103>{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Weiner |author-link=Eric Weiner |title=Waterboarding: A Tortured History |date=November 3, 2007 |publisher=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/2007/11/03/15886834/waterboarding-a-tortured-history |access-date=December 19, 2007 |archive-date=December 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205074814/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886834 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=walter20061005>{{cite news |first=Walter |last=Pincus |author-link=Walter Pincus |date=October 5, 2006 |title=Waterboarding Historically Controversial |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 20, 2009 |page=A17 |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706171507/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
[[File:Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier near Da Nang.jpeg|thumb|Two United States soldiers and a [[South Vietnam]]ese soldier [[Waterboarding|waterboard]] a captured [[North Vietnam]]ese prisoner during the Vietnam War; the image, which appeared on the front cover of ''The Washington Post'' on January 21, 1968, led to the court-martial of a United States soldier, although ''The Washington Post'' described waterboarding as "fairly common".<ref name=nprweiner20071103>{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Weiner |author-link=Eric Weiner |title=Waterboarding: A Tortured History |date=November 3, 2007 |publisher=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/2007/11/03/15886834/waterboarding-a-tortured-history |access-date=December 19, 2007 |archive-date=December 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205074814/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886834 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=walter20061005>{{cite news |first=Walter |last=Pincus |author-link=Walter Pincus |date=October 5, 2006 |title=Waterboarding Historically Controversial |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 20, 2009 |page=A17 |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706171507/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html |url-status=live }}</ref>]]


In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer bought the bankrupt ''Post'', and assured the public that neither he nor the newspaper would be beholden to any political party.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chalmers McGeagh Roberts|title=The Washington Post: The First 100 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OY61AAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+purchasing+The+Post,+I+acted+entirely+on+my+own+behalf%22&pg=PT198|year=1977|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=978-0-395-25854-5|page=198|access-date=January 2, 2022|archive-date=October 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004065511/https://books.google.com/books?id=OY61AAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+purchasing+The+Post,+I+acted+entirely+on+my+own+behalf%22&pg=PT198|url-status=live}}</ref> But as a leading Republican who had been appointed [[Chairman of the Federal Reserve]] by [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1930, his opposition to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] colored the paper's editorials and news coverage, including [[opinion piece|editorializing]] news stories written by Meyer under a pseudonym.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tom Kelly|title=The Imperial Post: The Meyers, the Grahams, and the Paper that Rules Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhhlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22anonymous%20reporting%22|year=1983|publisher=Morrow|pages=63–64|isbn=978-0-688-01919-8|access-date=May 22, 2020|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614005907/https://books.google.com/books?id=NhhlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22anonymous+reporting%22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Ernest Lamb|title=New Deal a Mistake, Says Glass, Holding U.S. Will Regret It: Senator, in Interview, Tells 'Unvarnished Truth' |agency=The Washington Post|publisher=Eugene Meyer |date=April 8, 1934|pages=1, 4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Ernest Lamb|title=Council Fought Security Act, Records Show: Statements by Wagner and Winant Are Refuted by Hearing Transcript. |agency=The Washington Post|publisher=Eugene Meyer |date=October 8, 1936|pages=1, 12}}</ref> His wife [[Agnes Ernst Meyer]] was a journalist from the other end of the spectrum politically. The ''Post'' ran many of her pieces including tributes to her personal friends [[John Dewey]] and [[Saul Alinsky]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Agnes Ernst Meyer|title=In Defense of Dr. Dewey|agency=The Washington Post|date=December 10, 1939|page=B8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Felsenthal|title=Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0lNDwAAQBAJ&q=%22The+Meyers%27+homes%2C+which+he+visited+often+24+Alinsky%22|year=1993|publisher=Seven Stories Press|pages=19, 127|isbn=978-1-60980-290-5|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702021347/https://books.google.com/books?id=x0lNDwAAQBAJ&q=%22The+Meyers%27+homes%2C+which+he+visited+often+24+Alinsky%22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Agnes Ernst Meyer|title=Orderly Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3utnQEACAAJ|year=1945|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=March 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323125143/https://books.google.com/books?id=h3utnQEACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Sanford D. Horwitt|title=Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j44DAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Alinsky%27s+get-togethers+with+Agnes+Meyer%22|year=1989|publisher=Knopf|page=195|isbn=978-0-394-57243-7|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=July 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703020746/https://books.google.com/books?id=j44DAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Alinsky%27s+get-togethers+with+Agnes+Meyer%22|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer bought the bankrupt ''Post'', and assured the public that neither he nor the newspaper would be beholden to any political party.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chalmers McGeagh Roberts|title=The Washington Post: The First 100 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OY61AAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+purchasing+The+Post,+I+acted+entirely+on+my+own+behalf%22&pg=PT198|year=1977|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=978-0-395-25854-5|page=198|access-date=January 2, 2022|archive-date=October 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004065511/https://books.google.com/books?id=OY61AAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+purchasing+The+Post,+I+acted+entirely+on+my+own+behalf%22&pg=PT198|url-status=live}}</ref> But as a leading Republican who had been appointed [[Chairman of the Federal Reserve]] by [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1930, his opposition to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] colored the paper's editorials and news coverage, including [[opinion piece|editorializing]] news stories written by Meyer under a pseudonym.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tom Kelly|title=The Imperial Post: The Meyers, the Grahams, and the Paper that Rules Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhhlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22anonymous%20reporting%22|year=1983|publisher=Morrow|pages=63–64|isbn=978-0-688-01919-8|access-date=May 22, 2020|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614005907/https://books.google.com/books?id=NhhlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22anonymous+reporting%22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Ernest Lamb|title=New Deal a Mistake, Says Glass, Holding U.S. Will Regret It: Senator, in Interview, Tells 'Unvarnished Truth' |agency=The Washington Post|publisher=Eugene Meyer |date=April 8, 1934|pages=1, 4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Ernest Lamb|title=Council Fought Security Act, Records Show: Statements by Wagner and Winant Are Refuted by Hearing Transcript. |agency=The Washington Post|publisher=Eugene Meyer |date=October 8, 1936|pages=1, 12}}</ref> His wife [[Agnes Ernst Meyer]] was a journalist from the other end of the spectrum politically. The ''Post'' ran many of her pieces including tributes to her personal friends [[John Dewey]] and [[Saul Alinsky]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Agnes Ernst Meyer|title=In Defense of Dr. Dewey|agency=The Washington Post|date=December 10, 1939|page=B8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Felsenthal|title=Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0lNDwAAQBAJ&q=%22The+Meyers%27+homes%2C+which+he+visited+often+24+Alinsky%22|year=1993|publisher=Seven Stories Press|pages=19, 127|isbn=978-1-60980-290-5|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702021347/https://books.google.com/books?id=x0lNDwAAQBAJ&q=%22The+Meyers%27+homes%2C+which+he+visited+often+24+Alinsky%22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Agnes Ernst Meyer|title=Orderly Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3utnQEACAAJ|year=1945|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=March 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323125143/https://books.google.com/books?id=h3utnQEACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Sanford D. Horwitt|title=Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j44DAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Alinsky%27s+get-togethers+with+Agnes+Meyer%22|year=1989|publisher=Knopf|page=195|isbn=978-0-394-57243-7|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=July 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703020746/https://books.google.com/books?id=j44DAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Alinsky%27s+get-togethers+with+Agnes+Meyer%22|url-status=live}}</ref>
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