Rough week at the City Paper?

Color me unimpressed with the Washington City Paper's cover "story" this week. The topic: the public forums at which locals overwhelmingly opposed Mayor Fenty's plan to close 23 neighborhood schools.

The article includes about five hundred words by Erik Wemple, followed by a montage of quotes (in varying point sizes) and photos from the forums. Looks like a scrapbook; reads like somebody got lazy and just filed his notes instead of synthesizing and analyzing the information and stringing it together into a story.

Sigh, it's so hot and cold at our local alternative weekly. I'd take another Eastern Market arson investigative piece any day.