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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2:45 pm
Not impressed. Rather see it all in the NY Times.
3:52 pm
Definitely underwhelming. A real mess.
5:11 pm
They hyping an idea that is neither original or creative for that matter
6:51 pm
Take out the references to the new section, and it looks like someone praising a corporate merger.
9:16 am
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.
9:35 am
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?
10:08 am
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.
11:56 am
Are these fake comments?
3:01 pm
WOW CP has more rathers than its staff and me?
5:17 pm
“Rathers?” Imbecile.
9:30 pm
Will Arts & Style feature page-1 above-the-fold 1,200-word profiles of mass murderers, like Style does?
10:55 pm
Mike Licht -
This is no time to be Un-American.
9:57 am
Is the City Paper actually fit to criticize anything other than the local high school paper?
10:26 am
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