pentagon papers its biggest journalistic milestones it moved to centreright during the 1990s and remained centrist for the most part thereafter it backed president bushs egregious war on iraq but also endorsed candidate obama in the 2008 and 2012 elections like all great media organizations its moments of glory were laced with its share of contretemps once the paper apparently intended to report that president woodrow wilson had been entertaining his futurewife mrs galt but instead wrote that he had been entering mrs galt on a more serious note it was humiliated in 1980 when it had to return a pulitzer prize after its reporter janet cooke was found to have fabricated the awardwinning story about an eightyearold heroin addict gag and quips about the sale belied the epochal nature of the transaction and transition one of the jokes on twitter spoofed a message for the new owner on amazoncom saying based on your previous purchases jeff bezos you might also like the los angeles times the orlando sentinel newsweek indeed this is the second major legacy media transaction in recent days after the new york times sold the boston globe to the owner of the boston red sox baseball team for a paltry 70 million having bought it in 1993 for 11 billion many other newspapers have withered away attesting to the crisis afflicting the print media in the us even as it continues to flourish in india but the question on everyones mind is whether bezos has the strategic vision and nous to revive the print publication or if he will just transition it to a fully digital form having acquired what some might see as a vanity purchase to get a toehold in the media unlike the honchos at google and facebook his media muscle is relatively modest derived mostly from amazons kindle devices jeff bezos rekindles hope at the washington post was the headline in politicocom but saloncom was more skeptical with a snarky the iceberg just rescued the titanic