Is The Style Section Just Like A Blog?
We’ve gotten lots of feedback from readers criticizing such recent Style section front-page articles as Wingman to Virginity to Hey! Politicians Make Secret Trips!
And today’s article “The Crushed Crush: A Fan Comes to Grips With Lance’s Coming Out” has only given the Style-haters more fodder.
Writes in one reader:
It’s like a personal blog, but on paper. I’m so glad to see that the Washington Post will allow anyone to humiliate themselves on the front section of the newspaper. In a not-so-valiant attempt to regain lost pop-culture ground as a result of lame articles such as the “Wingman”, the paper is apparently now allowing anyone to express whatever rambling, idiot sentiment they wish about random news items that only – at best – deserve a brief.
Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our 
Nadine Cheung
Editor, The Job Post
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