DCRTV has a link to a story in the Washington City Paper about an embarrassing correction for the Post from a couple of weeks ago; evidently a story in the Post’s Sunday Source section wasn’t all it was cracked up to be…
Earlier this year, honchos at the Washington Post convened a meeting with editors of the paper’s special weekly sections—Sunday Source, Health, Food, Home, Weekend, et al. The weeklies operate outside of the Post’s daily news grind, and top editors were concerned that they weren’t getting enough attention.
In the session, the purveyors of the Post’s softer content got a tutorial on the ethics of service journalism. Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. says the idea was “to give them a variety of training, and ethics was part of it.”
Perhaps the lessons didn’t sink in.
More details are available in the article itself. I’m not surprised that they pounced on this story; after all, City Paper was one of Express’s harshest critics at its launch last year, going so far as to make up a mocking special edition of their own on launch day and repeatedly dismissing its effect on the local market. Clearly they don’t care for so-called “soft news,” which seems more than a little ironic to me, but what do I know, I just work in IT.
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