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Post Hiring a Liberal Blogger

by Matt Stoller, Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 11:53:40 AM EST

Atrios and Aravosis are rightfully snarky about the Post's decision to hire a liberal blogger. My guess is that they'll hire someone who's an acceptably establishment blogger as the liberal blogger, not an aggressive progressive who actually represents a new voice at the Post. We'll see.

But let's not this distract from the fact that we won. It wasn't just plagiarism. This move is an institutional recognition that genuinely progressive voices are not really included in public discourse. Jim Brady might have learned something, or he might have just been pressured into it. Regardless, good job. Liberal blogs are making progress.

Update: Hat tip Raw Story.

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Re: Post Hiring a Liberal Blogger (none / 0)

Depends on who they hire doesn't it? Seems like an opportunity to make "liberal" blogs just as silly as they made "conservative" blogs, albeit by accident.

by Lucas O'Connor on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 12:11:29 PM EST

Post Hiring a "Liberal" Blogger (none / 0)

I hear they have their sites set on Joseph Lieberman...you know, he may be looking for a job come November and he'd fit in well with their Liberal agenda.

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by dumbledore on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 12:15:21 PM EST

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It'll be David Corn. He's safe enough now. Or the other Liberal™ blogger at Pajamline. I forgot his name.

by Sean Paul on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 12:51:09 PM EST

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My money's on Marshall Wittman.

by fwiffo on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 01:08:39 PM EST

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Jane or Christy of Firedoglake would be good choices as they are probably the outstanding voices right now.

by kundalini on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 01:21:09 PM EST

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What, not Maryscott O'Connor? Damn.

OK, failing MSOC, David Corn would be fine. The author of "The Lies of George Bush" will not be a simpering colmesish me-too Republican.

by admiralnaismith on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 02:08:45 PM EST

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PS: If they're smart, they'll be wanting to stir things up and get the most scrappy partisans they can find, the kind who regularly resort to throwaway lines about how bad the other side smells and how they hate everything that makes America great.

The difference being that Republicans who do that are already all over the place, while a firebreathing leftist would be a fresh new voice. That's why I'm wishing we could have MSOC.

Mind you, I'm not predicting they'll be smart....

by admiralnaismith on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 02:12:45 PM EST
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My guess is that they'll hire someone who's an acceptably establishment blogger as the liberal blogger

So says the blogger who frequently appears on CNN.

by blueflorida on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 05:08:18 PM EST

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Okay, it's not fair to leave it just at that.

They won't choose someone like Jane because she's an activist first and foremost. If they had any guts they'd choose Atrios (he'd probably rather die first) or Gilliard 'cause I'm convinced that if he had a wider audience he'd become a real phenomenon (a writer of any background who can cover issues of war, race, and popular culture with equal ease is hard to find). He probably curses too much 'tho.

I wouldn't be surprised if they chose someone like Digby.

by blueflorida on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 05:16:26 PM EST
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Liberal blogs are making progress.

Ought to be open source trademarked

by ROGNM on Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 05:16:37 PM EST

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