when examining an organization and what it does -- whether it be a newspaper, a university, or whatever -- it's always worth doing so in light of its charter. T

when examining an organization and what it does -- whether it be a newspaper, a university, or whatever -- it's always worth doing so in light of its charter. The Washington Post is a forprofit entity. Contrast that with, for example, Harper's magazine, which is owned by the nonprofit MacArthur Foundation. I'm surprised that there are any forprofit journalistic entities that haven't completely succumbed at this point (the FT comes to mind) to the pressures/patterns that the WashPost has.