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BYRON YORK: At Washington Post, mum?s the word on JournoList. Since the paper employs JournoLi?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: At Washington Post, mum?s the word on JournoList.

Since the paper employs JournoList?s founder and proprietor, and since comments on JournoList led to Weigel?s leaving the paper, and since those events raise questions about whether other Post journalists took part in JournoList, and since there are likely more stories to come from the thousands of still-unpublished exchanges on JournoList, it is reasonable to ask what the Post?s management knows, and what it knew in the past, about Post journalists taking part in the list-serv.

It?s reasonable to ask ? but the Post isn?t going to answer. . . . Finally, in light of the ?call them racists? passage in Tuesday?s Daily Caller story on JournoList, I asked whether Post management believes that kind of organized behind-the-scenes conversation is appropriate for Post journalists to take part in.

The Post?s response was brief. ?We do not discuss personnel matters,? Coratti responded. ?The Post has standards for its employees and we expect all personnel to follow them.?

Given the potential legal ramifications of Journolist for the Post, it’s not surprising they’ve clammed up.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).