Give Jack Shafer credit for taking on his sister publication, The Washington Post, in an online tirade that claims the Post opinion pages are too much the home for the same small group of pundits and opinion writers.

“In a perfect world, a publication is edited for readers,” he writes. “In the imperfect world that we inhabit, too many publications are edited for the benefit of their staffs and their friends and associates. The Washington Post op-ed page, which hoards its space for its own, is one of the worst offenders.”

Ouch! Not exactly a love letter to the newspaper owned by his parent company.