{"id":4637,"date":"2009-04-24T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2009-04-24T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:16:03","slug":"wapo-this-should-solve-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: “This<\/i> Should Solve The Problem!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m envisioning the publishers at the Washington Post in a meeting:<\/p>\n

GILES THROCKMORTON: “Muffy, put a bump on this cognac?\u00a0 Thank you, dear.\u00a0 OK, everyone.\u00a0 We’re getting are ah<\/em>-sses handed to us.\u00a0 Ideas?<\/p>\n

BENTLY FITZWILLIS: “NPR and Romanesko all say we’ve been swinging to the center…”<\/p>\n

SADAH COHEN: “THAT’S the problem!”<\/p>\n

THROCKMORTON: “I concur.\u00a0 What do we do?”<\/p>\n

DEREK MICAH DU FRESNE: “I don’t know; we’re laying people off as it is…”<\/p>\n

THROCKMORTON: “Damn finances; we need a stronger liberal presence<\/em>!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(The previous conversation was fictional.\u00a0 All celebrity voices were impersonated – badly<\/font>)<\/p>\n

Far fetched? Maybe.\u00a0 But I’m trying to figure out a better reason that the WaPo would hire Ezra Klein<\/a>, currently with the Prospect and formerly one of the interchangeable giggly fratboybloggers from Pandagon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Is there method to the madness? Perhaps:<\/p>\n

The benefits to Klein are clear. He gets a potenitally larger audience and one would assume paycheck for the move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is there madness to the method?<\/p>\n

As for the Post the benefits are less clear as they add to their overhead which they have been chopping at the print edition and their is no guarantee that Klein will attract enough readers to increase the web site’s revenues which is what I assume they are striving for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the real question:<\/p>\n

After all the paper and web site already lean left so do they really need to add to that side of the ledger?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having observed the behavior of the Twin Cities media in the past few weeks, I wonder if anyone in the media even recognizes the concept of “leaning left?”<\/p>\n

Example: A journalist generally regarded as\u00a0 credible writing at a local “progressive” publication, covering the Tea Parties, used the term “Teabaggers” in his headline.\u00a0 Didn’t seem to have a clue <\/em>anyone would see a sign of bias or slant in it.<\/p>\n

If you question a typical journalist, he or she will deny any personal bias (possible), and usually any on the part of the media as a whole – which either means a massive conspiracy to brainwash reporters (implausible) or a persepctive utterly foreign ot most of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m envisioning the publishers at the Washington Post in a meeting: GILES THROCKMORTON: “Muffy, put a bump on this cognac?\u00a0 Thank you, dear.\u00a0 OK, everyone.\u00a0 We’re getting are ah-sses handed to us.\u00a0 Ideas? BENTLY FITZWILLIS: “NPR and Romanesko all say we’ve been swinging to the center…” SADAH COHEN: “THAT’S the problem!” THROCKMORTON: “I concur.\u00a0 What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}