text: This theory singles out current Executive Editor Downie for abuse , but complacency took root as early as 1981 , when the Post ' s cross-town competitor , the Washington Star , folded , allowing the fat beast to diddle all it wanted without paying a price .
  
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  Downie comes across very well according to this theory which suggests that complacency didn 't take hold until after he left in 1995 .