I believe the Washington Post protest too much.

[Uncle Joe]

Frankly, I believe they're more concerned about the cruelty and malice toward their own bottom line, and loss of influences as they feel increasingly threatened by the Internet. They're just taking a page from Karl Rove's book as he gave a recent speech against Internet anonymity. I believe he had something against CIA anonymity as well, when it differed with the neocon's fallacious agenda. Brian Williams labels Internet Bloggers as Vinnie in a bath robe in his mom's basement and the Washington Post starts goose stepping in unison stereotyping people on the Internet as the same. I'm sure they would love nothing more than to throw the baby out with the bath water. I haven't seen an apology from them yet for slandering Al Gore for so long, of course they didn't need to do it anonymously, as they combined with the majority of the rest of the corporate media had the one way megaphone and the money on their side to attack the messenger, they didn't need facts or truth to attack the message. I believe it's the political message they're afraid of rather than the rough and tumble nature of the Internet.

P.S. Here is a recent example of what I believe the Washington Post hates about the Internet.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2287299