Competition for Jeff Bezos’s Shabby Washington Post

In early February, I wrote a column suggesting that someone needed to create a rival newspaper for the nation’s capital to the shameful remnant of The Washington Post, which has been pillaged by Jeff Bezos as tribute to Donald Trump. I mentioned The Baltimore Banner as a rough role model.

The Banner was created from scratch in 2022 by Stewart W. Bainum Jr., a businessman and philanthropist, after the legacy Baltimore Sun was hollowed out by its private equity owners. The paper won a...