Departure of Washington Post blogger sparks furor

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from Raw Story:



Departure of Washington Post blogger sparks furor

By Muriel Kane
Friday, June 25th, 2010 -- 9:16 pm


New media and old media collided head on this week -- and both appear to have been the losers when Dave Weigel, who has been blogging about the conservative end of the political spectrum for the Washington Post, resigned under pressure.

Weigel is not a conservative himself but is what Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic describes as a "disaffected libertarian" who "hates stupid people" and "says what he thinks." He served as a contributing editor at the libertarian Reason magazine, among other positions, before joining the Washington Post last March.

But now Weigel's occasional tendency to use intemperate language, combined with the desire of some conservatives to be covered by one of their own instead of being subjected to the jaundiced eye of a semi-outsider, has has put a premature terminus to his career as a mainstream journalist.

Salon blogger Alex Pareene had no doubt that Weigel had been the victim of a political dirty trick. "David Weigel just resigned from the Washington Post, following an apparently coordinated campaign to humiliate and discredit him by forwarding and posting his private messages to a listserv to unfriendly media outlets," Pareene wrote on Friday. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0625/departure-washington-post-blogger-sparks-furor/

[HillbillyBob]

1. Waaaa, the self-servatives want more coverage

of their dog and pony show by their own dog,not to offend dogs and ponies they are generally nicer people than kkkreestian konservatives are.
What is actually needed is someone who tells truth..which is in very short supply these days.