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WaPo Ponders HuffPo DC Sustainability, Successes - cbl
Posted September 27, 2011
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By Brian Wolak
D.C. -- The Washington Post's Erik Wemple recently dedicated a 1,600-word blog entry to the Huffington Post's new D.C. site, HuffPost DC, questioning its merits, picking out its flaws, picking on Patch, and admitting to being surprised at some of the aggregator's successes.
A sampling of some of Wemple's observations:
- "Among the loathsome administrative duties at Huffington Post D.C. is making sense of the submissions by the guest bloggers, who occupy precious left-rail space on the D.C. page. This is where the community comes to vent."
- "When I saw the post from Jody Melto, "Mandarin Chinese translator, interpreter and teacher," I was ready to pounce. Her piece was about child car seats, and I had resolved that it would stink. It did not. It was entertaining and well written."
- "If they do their jobs as Patch people, they probably won't produce much buzzy stuff for Huffington Post D.C.; and if they do much buzzy stuff for Huffington Post D.C., they won't be doing their jobs as Patch people.
- "At its core, after all, Huffington Post D.C. is a white site speaking to a mostly white audience and in search of advertising dollars in the arts-entertainment-dining sector."
Read Wemple's full blog entry here: http://tinyurl.com/69xyh5y
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