Maybe, maybe not. A print newspaper was filled with a lot of stuff that was not high-quality news reporting: features, opinions, &quot;local color,&quot; comics, horoscopes, crossword puzzle, sudoku...and of course a lot of ads. Classified ads, help wanted ads, a &quot;car reporting&quot; section with car ads, a &quot;real estate reporting&quot; section with real estate ads, a &quot;travel&quot; section with travel ads, an &quot;entertainment&quot; section with entertainment ads, plus ads next to news stories, and regular coupon inserts.<p>A reputation for great reporting really depends on great reporting, not the proportion of great reporting to the rest of the content. The Watergate stories--which to a large extent made the reputation of the Post as a top-notch national newspaper--ran next to a lot of the things I list above.<p>More recently, the Post was one of the first publications to run stories based on the Snowden documents, and broke stories about problems at the Secret Service.