The Wrong Culprit in the Controversy at the Washington Post

If Americans know anything about British journalism, it’s that they do it differently over there — usually in ways that wouldn’t pass American ethical standards. Brits pay for stories. British papers don’t separate news from opinion. British reporters hack phones.

These supposed transatlantic differences have been raised frequently amid the flurry of scrutiny on the journalistic and ethical track records of Washington Post publisher Will Lewis and Rob Winnett, a fellow Telegraph alum whom Lewis is bringing in to be Post editor.