Post is Suffering a 'Failure of Imagination'

The Post’s internal critiques continue to provide much fodder for discussion both inside and outside the paper. This week, the Post’s funnyman, Gene Weingarten, took up the challenge and delivered one of the most eloquent, passionate, and challenging critiques of the paper and its current station in Washington yet:

“How can we still wonder why our profession is swirling counterclockwise down the toilet in a maelstrom of irrelevancy, a relentless vortex fed by the fetid stench of our shocking ineptitude, when we keep making the same idiotic, reader-unfriendly mistakes? Today is a case in point, in our very own newspaper, where, as any moderately talented journalism student would understand, the photo at the top of page 12F should have been cropped one-sixteenth of an inch lower so that …

“What? Oh, sorry.

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