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In an effort to win new readers, Downie said Post reporters will be required to write shorter stories. The paper's design and copy editors will be given more authority to make room for more photographs and graphics.

The paper will undergo a redesign to make it easier for readers to find stories. It is considering filling the left-hand column of the front page with keys to stories elsewhere in the paper and other information readers say they want from the paper, which they often consider "too often too dull," Downie said.

1 posted on 11/18/2004 10:26:48 PM PST by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax

Can Richard Cohen. Harold Meyerson, Froomkin, and Milbank and hire Mark Steyn. Watch circulation soar.


2 posted on 11/18/2004 10:30:26 PM PST by the Real fifi
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Let's see the resumes of Bennett, Robinson and Spayd. Which one of the three is actually most qualified to hold the position?
3 posted on 11/18/2004 10:35:01 PM PST by Dont Mention the War (How important a Senator can you be if Dick Cheney's never told you to "go [bleep] yourself"?)
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To: Pikamax
...the more intense discussion at the meeting involved diversity at the newspaper, as several minority staff members lamented that a white man recently was chosen over a woman and a black man as the paper's new managing editor.

And they wonder why their circulation is going down?

4 posted on 11/19/2004 12:29:29 AM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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This is not a parody.


5 posted on 11/19/2004 3:42:24 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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So how does a liberal editor make the case to his staff that he promoted someone based on ability rather than identity?

I would assume it's a foreign concept to most of the ink-stained wretches at the Post.


7 posted on 11/19/2004 4:27:24 AM PST by IStillBelieve (G.W. Bush '04: Biggest popular-vote victory in history, and first popular-vote majority in 16 years!)
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Oh, now this is a REAL solution to your free-fall circulation decline, Mr. Downie (Washington Post Executive Editor).

Never have I witnessed more intentionally clueless people, more psychotic levels of denial, than in the MSM, the doomed legacy media. Prediction: circulation will drop another 100,000 in two more years.

8 posted on 11/19/2004 4:29:56 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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How typical that a group of lefties are skimming over real business to discuss their feeeeelings.


10 posted on 11/19/2004 5:12:38 AM PST by AmericanChef
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To: Pikamax; All
Post reporter discussing talk radio and Post circulation (down 10 percent in two years) on Laura Ingraham show now.
11 posted on 11/19/2004 6:45:50 AM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: Pikamax; Lizavetta

Modern liberalism requires everyone to look different but think the same.
lizavetta (freeper)


The paper is going to pots because of their liberal bias. They are more central than the NYtimes or the LAtimes, but the bias is still more than noticable. It was best seen in their absolute hatred for Aschroft, Wolfawitz and Rumseld. I don't believe a positve story about the three of them has EVER come out of the WP.

But the Post does have a good, solid, lawyer like, investigative reporter who I trust more than almost any other national reporter in Michael Dobbs. He covered the Swift Vets and Bush's Gaurd service (two intensely polarizing issues) very, very well - almost like a fact checker. They want good reporting - make him editor.

They should worry about their diversity of thought rather than their diversity of body.


13 posted on 11/19/2004 11:05:02 AM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm)
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