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Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic:
"How could we destroy our standards by hiring a guy stupid enough to write about people that way in a public forum?" one of my friends at the Post asked me when we spoke earlier today. "I'm not suggesting that many people on the paper don't lean left, but there's leaning left, and then there's behaving like an idiot."And Jonah Goldberg at National Review:
I gave my friend the answer he already knew: The sad truth is that the Washington Post, in its general desperation for page views, now hires people who came up in journalism without much adult supervision, and without the proper amount of toilet-training. This little episode today is proof of this.
The Washington Post has a very, very long history of hiring young writers from proudly liberal opinion magazines (as do many other mainstream media outlets). I stopped keeping count, but I’m sure at this very moment there at least a half dozen alumni of the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, or The American Prospect charged with writing ostensibly straight news or analysis for the paper. They might not have left the same paper (or listserv) trail, but does anyone doubt that Ezra Klein says similar stuff when he’s off-duty all the time?
I don’t know if Weigel needed to resign or not. The revelation of his comments certainly might hurt his ability to get conservative activists to talk to him. But the fact that he talks this way among his fellow liberal journalist friends shouldn’t be cause for him to lose his job at the Post. Because he’s hardly alone. Weigel’s real sin was getting caught.
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