Reader's Indigestion

Reader's Indigestion

Reader’s Digest and friends are in serious pain. Will their prescription work?

  • Dave Jamieson is a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at djamieson@hotmail.com.
  • Jeff Horwitz has written for Portfolio, Legal Times, and the Washington City Paper. He's a freelancer in New York.
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Anemic Reporting

Enlighten us: you are offering what is billed as a meaty profile on a supposedly troubled/dying company and you present us with a quote or two from an analyst and a few unnamed former employees? Oh, and the company's PR flack? Unacceptable. This is weak, shoddy reporting, especially when it took two "reporters" to cobble this together. Any editor worth the title would have kicked this back to these two and said, "Get out there and get me more facts, more quotes." Why didn't you?

When real news operations like mags and newspapers die, I suppose this is what we will be left with.