Thoughts on the Washington Post Article...

While searching through thewashingtonpost.com at first, it seemed like a pretty nice website. However, after reading the article and seeing what their "pillars" were, my mind changed. The fact that their 2nd most imporant pillar is "engangement" and that is one of the places the website is lacking the most. The issues of new coffee shops and entertainment are not issues they should be working on. They need to be talking about fixing what's wrong in the community and bringing out the hard news. Also, they need to be a place where people can access and tell the site what needs to be fixed. There is a place for entertainment and so on, but they needed to have more ways for people to put feedback on the important issues. I find it interesting that they seem to think that you can build "community through anonymity." That doesn't usually seem to be the case. I think the article was a good one and I think that Katharine Weymouth needs to be looking into ways to better the website.