Over the past several weeks, Washington Post blogger/columnist/reporter Ezra Klein has both hired three reporters to work under him and rebranded his blog. It’s now called Wonkblog, and here’s what Ezra has to say about it: The idea for Wonkblog came out of another group project: Wonkbook, the morning policy e-mail that I write alongside …
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Are HuffPo’s bloggers the same as sources?
Ezra Klein says so. The comparison isn’t quite 100%, but it’s a lot closer than most people think. I agree with pretty much everything below: At the New York Times, academics and activists and authors lend their time, name and authority to the publication. The payoff? A quote in the paper, some influence over the …
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Ideology, pragmatism and sacred values
Ezra Klein had a post this week titled “Obama’s budget is policy, not ideology” that contained this bit: Obama’s budget is not philosophy…it is the product of a negotiation process, as opposed to an opening bid. It is, in other words, policy. You could argue that this is a philosophy, and that philosophy is pragmatism, …
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