Legend has it that the editors at Washington Post and the NY Times communicate each day to confirm that they have different lead stories/images on their front page. Well, it appears that the communication lines between Marcus Brauchli and Bill Keller were not open last night, as both venerable newspapers lead with the same image from the tragic Cambodia stampede from yesterday. (H/T Patrick Gavin)

In the wake of the Dave Weigel controversy at the Washington Post, the paper’s ombudsman Andrew Alexander admits there are numerous instances of reporters, bloggers, and “contributing editors” offering their opinions under the WaPo brand but few knew that guidelines even existed on proper conduct.

Washington power hostess and journalist Sally Quinn has lost her Washington Post style section column after she used her prized real estate to respond to rumors about wedding drama in her high-profile family, the Washington City Paper is reporting.

Over the weekend, we teased Gabriel Sherman‘s The New Republic cover story on the flailing Washington Post — fallen from grace and under the new management of publisher Katharine Weymouth and editor Marcus Brauchli. Now, the entire story is available online and it’s exactly the extensive chronicle of dysfunction and mismanagement that we expected, beginning chiefly with WaPo‘s infamous salongate.

“The news about the news, for the most part, has stunk for some time: There’s been cowardly and crappy decision-making in scary times; ethics, at times, have been mislaid; lousy things have found their way into print, and worthy things — killed for unworthy reasons — have not.”

The Washingtonian is reporting that it came to blows in the Washington Post offices late last week when feature editor Henry Allen and writer Manuel Roig-Franzia had it out over the quality of a story, all within view of Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli. Really, gentlemen — in front of the boss?

Either not everybody at the Washington Post is on the same page about what “off the record” means exactly, or executive editor Marcus Brauchli is a liar: Did he or didn’t he know that the advertised salons would be off the record? That question and others have come to light after a letter from Brauchli to now-resigned Post marketing director Charles Pelton was sent to the Times by Pelton’s lawyer.

On Thursday Politico reported the discovery of a flier advertising special WaPo ‘salons’: “For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to ‘those powerful few.’” Cue media outrage. But is it really so bad?