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Post Big Shot Raves About “Style & Arts”

Via Fishbowldc comes a memo from Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett. One of Bennett's prime responsibilities is newsroom-morale management, and in this memo he's earning his money by touting the brilliance of the "Style & Arts" section that debuted in the paper yesterday. A sampling:

"The section we've launched today opens a great new creative space in Washington, to our readers, for The Post's best talent. You could see this morning the promise of its simplicity. Style & Arts isn't by itself meant to represent a big idea, but to present a big, open place for original ideas, characters and stories to develop and live."

There's more, of course, and it's mostly nonsense. I can't imagine Bennett inked this one with a straight face. The combined section, after all, is not a bold, new concept. It's a compromise, a merger born of fiscal necessity. The title of the section says it all, and to say otherwise seems a bit delusional.

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  1. #1

    Not impressed. Rather see it all in the NY Times.

  2. #2

    Definitely underwhelming. A real mess.

  3. #3

    They hyping an idea that is neither original or creative for that matter

  4. #4

    Take out the references to the new section, and it looks like someone praising a corporate merger.

  5. #5

    The Wash Post merger of Arts & Style is an unoriginal concept indeed. It isn’t innovative either. Which displays the Wash CP own no-nonsense Arts section in such a magnificent advantage.

  6. #6

    No, it's not oroginal, innovative or particularly interesting for that matter. The WAsh CP Arts & Events is of much more interest by comparison. Erik, how can we thank you enough?

  7. #7

    Ernest even resolved to cancel his subscription to that uninteresting outlet altogether. "Why pay for the Wash Post when one can have WAsh CP for free?" he reasoned.

  8. #8

    Are these fake comments?

  9. #9

    WOW CP has more rathers than its staff and me?

  10. #10

    "Rathers?" Imbecile.

  11. #11

    Will Arts & Style feature page-1 above-the-fold 1,200-word profiles of mass murderers, like Style does?

  12. #12

    Mike Licht -

    This is no time to be Un-American.

  13. CP not worth the paper its written on
    #13

    Is the City Paper actually fit to criticize anything other than the local high school paper?

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