Paul Farhi schreibt in »The Washington Post’s new slogan turns out to be an old saying« für washingtonpost.com

Woodward’s source appears to be Judge Damon J. Keith, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, who ruled in a pre-Watergate era case that the government couldn’t wiretap individuals without a warrant. In his decision, Keith apparently coined a variation on The Post’s motto, writing that „Democracy dies in the dark.“