http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/04/10/endangered-species-at-wapo-editors/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/04/10/endangered-species-at-wapo-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-529092 thefrontpage Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:19:58 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=19863#comment-529092 This just doesn't sound good at all. The Post has already lost some great reporters, some great reporters with great institutional memory, some great reporters who wrote and reported and broke stories really well, the Post has lost some great copy editors, the Post has lost some great columnists in every section of the paper, the Post has lost coverage in key areas, the Post has cancelled some popular comics, the Post has instituted recently some horrible, harish graphic designs that are laughable, the Post has lost some great editors with great institutional memory, and the Post has dumbed-down much of the newspaper. And now they're going to be firing experienced editors? What sense does that make? The Post should be focusing on attrition, beefing up hard news coverage, beefing up investigative coverage of local and national governments, stopping this stupid dumbing-down of the paper, and eliminating many feature writers who write maybe one story a month--we mean, come on! There are intelligent ways to make the paper better in a more intelligent manner. But firing experienced people, losing institutional memory, dumbing-down the paper and getting rid of copy editors and line editors is just absolutely dumb. This just doesn't sound good at all. The Post has already lost some great reporters, some great reporters with great institutional memory, some great reporters who wrote and reported and broke stories really well, the Post has lost some great copy editors, the Post has lost some great columnists in every section of the paper, the Post has lost coverage in key areas, the Post has cancelled some popular comics, the Post has instituted recently some horrible, harish graphic designs that are laughable, the Post has lost some great editors with great institutional memory, and the Post has dumbed-down much of the newspaper. And now they're going to be firing experienced editors? What sense does that make? The Post should be focusing on attrition, beefing up hard news coverage, beefing up investigative coverage of local and national governments, stopping this stupid dumbing-down of the paper, and eliminating many feature writers who write maybe one story a month--we mean, come on! There are intelligent ways to make the paper better in a more intelligent manner. But firing experienced people, losing institutional memory, dumbing-down the paper and getting rid of copy editors and line editors is just absolutely dumb.

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