Katherine Boyle

It was, you know, the phrase, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Everyone who worked there was in complete denial that the internet was changing their business.

It was shocking to me.

It's ego.

It's desperation.

It's I don't want to lose my job.

It's we are bigger than this.

We're the Washington Post.

We're the brand.

Everyone needs us.

But I think this is true of humans that are

in these kind of grand institutions, they can't recognize when something's crumbling.

You see it happening with universities today where these universities are sort of in some ways in major crisis because of what the students are doing and they just can't ever see that things need to be reformed.

You know, federal government too can't see that things need to be reformed.

But that was certainly like a learning for me where I saw it.

Because I wasn't wedded to it.

I hadn't been there during the heyday where everyone was getting to fly wherever they wanted.

They could be bureau chief of any country they wanted to be bureau chief of.

I mean, we had shuttered all of our international bureaus by the time I had gotten there.

So it was a paper that was clearly in decline.