How to connect the dots between words and action

The Washington Post does great journalism. Jonathan Krim, assistant managing editor/ local at washingtonpost.com, documents several examples in his response to my recent piece "Washington Post needs to do some structural work on its shaky new strategy." Except Krim mislabeled this journalism as a serious attempt at "deeper and broader [community] engagement." It isn't. The best example that Krim cited - "Fixing D.C.'s Schools" - actually shows how the Post, particularly its website, remains stuck in this great paper's legacy of investigative journalism, where the investigators, who are word, not action, people, remain in total control. The series, put together by a team of 12 reporters, editors, videographers and others, is a devastating indictment of how the District public schools educate their students. But the articles, fine as they are, offer no avenues of help to District parents who have children in one of the worst public school systems in the country.