The Washington Post's investigative reporting is fantastic, while its opinion writing is shrill and barely informative. I think the reason for the sudden promi

The Washington Post's investigative reporting is fantastic, while its opinion writing is shrill and barely informative. I think the reason for the sudden prominence of negative Trump coverage was to address serious backlash the Washington Post was receiving. The Washington Post and other newspapers were giving enormous amounts of free media coverage to the Trump campaign up until the Republican National Convention. The Washington Post overcompensated by deluging readers with opinion pieces to overcome this criticism. I hope that the interest in opinion pieces will wane, but we will see.