In today’s WashPost, columnist Tina Brown bites on the Dan Rather spin that he was just an empty suit on the Bush-TexANG fiasco, and ends by claiming “The old Canadian press baron Lord Northcliffe’s definition of news is still the only one that counts: ‘News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.’”

What a bad slogan — it doesn’t seem to care whether the news is true or not, which is the whole problem with Rather. It could be his slogan. But it’s odd coming out of Tina, whose snake-oil advertising for the sexiness and loving marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton was too ridiculous for words. Stroll down memory lane here.