{"id":7090,"date":"2006-04-08T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2006-04-08T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-08T14:20:59","slug":"wapo-takes-josh-marshalls-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wapo-takes-josh-marshalls-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo takes Josh Marshall’s advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the Ben Domenech brouhaha from a few weeks ago? The Washington Post decided it could achieve some kind of journalistic “balance” by hiring a 24-year-old Republican activist to write a blog that promotes conservative ideas to counter a professional journalist who’s written for several newspapers over the course of a sterling 18-year career.<\/p>\n

Josh Marshall, at the time, offered the Post a hint<\/a> about how the paper might appear less foolish.<\/p>\n

If they want to make a blogger Crossfire with a firebreather on the left and on the right, they should do it. It might even be interesting. But here they’ve just been played by bullies and played for fools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the WaPo got the message<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time around the Washington Post plans to hire two bloggers for its Web site.<\/p>\n

The paper’s ombudsman, Deborah Howell, has informed RAW STORY that Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, is looking for a liberal blogger, along with a conservative one, to replace Ben Domenech who resigned after only three days of blogging, when his earlier writings were discovered by mostly liberal bloggers to be racially insensitive and — in multiple cases — plagiarized.<\/p>\n

The paper doesn’t plan on making any formal announcement, but the news should be welcome to many critics on the left who felt that it was unfair to hire just a conservative blogger in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, was that so hard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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