That is very possibly true. And it would not be inconsistent with employees at WaPo second-guessing themselves when reporting on certain matters. Maybe not even

That is very possibly true. And it would not be inconsistent with employees at WaPo second-guessing themselves when reporting on certain matters. Maybe not even a majority of employees. Maybe not consciously. But every time they have to put that disclaimer in an article, they're reminded that they better bloody not get something wrong. There doesn't have to be any editorial edict. The unspoken obvious reality is that no Washington Post reporter is ever going to be as brazen and quick to print on an article about Bezos or Amazon as they are about Musk or Twitter or Tesla. That's bias. That's ownership affecting the product.