Alex Cockburn is an editor of the political newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for The Nation and the Los Angeles Times. Cockburn talks about how the Post’s pronounced shift to the Right was already well underway in 1983 when the show was made. Tracing a biography of the newspaper from 1963, when Katherine Graham became the first woman to run a nationally prominent newspaper, he shows how the newspaper’s scope changed to profit-making and how the Post usually has fairly conservative editorials and acts as informal agenda setter for the political class in Washington DC.