Paper Shredder
New Republic, May 9, 2008
By Gabriel Sherman
Shortly after nine in the morning on April 28, about two dozen reporters and editors in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau assembled for the weekly staff meeting led by the D.C. bureau chief, John Bussey. Seated on couches in the bureau's wood-paneled parlor, the staffers waited to begin a conference call with Robert Thomson, the Journal's publisher.
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