kudos to Ron. unkudos to the others.Ron Brynaert at Raw Story has the scoop: “This time around the Washington Post plans to hire two bloggers for its Web site.”
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.Ron reveals that Ben Domenech had a history of appearing in the Post and seems to have been… connected.
Now here’s a curious lapse in blogosphere etiquette. John Avarosis and Atrios and Matt Stoller all comment on the Washington Post looking for a liberal blogger, and none links to—or even mentions—Brynaert’s story at Raw, which is how they know about it because he broke the news. Weird. Is that informing your readers? His piece has new information about Domenech and the resolution of the debacle he became for the Post. Not to link to the originating report when you easily can is giving poor service, and these blogs normally give good service, so what’s up with that?"
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
a curious lapse in blogosphere etiquette
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Believe it or not, I actually have a good suggestion for a conservative blogger, a friend of mine from college days. He doesn't plagairize (well at least he only plagairizes himself, he would routinely recycle columns for one paper for another), and is very honest for a Republican.
Problem is that he's in the George Will mold of commentators, so most of his stuff would probably go over the heads of like 99% of his fellow conservatives. But, at least he'd be honest and try to be intellectual about things and not resort to race-baiting and such Domenench tactics.
As for liberal blogger, heh, good luck WaPo, you've got soooo many to chose from....
I'm sure they'll end up chosing a DLC-approved blogger and calling him a "liberal" instead of the toadying cenrist s/he really is.
an intellectually-honest republican? jeebus. does he blog on papyrus?
it'll be interesting to see whether the bloggers are equi-distant from the mythical 'center'
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