One of the places Dave Weigel stopped after his exit from the Washington Post was Slate, and Michael Calderone writes today that Mr. Weigel has now signed a one-year contract with the Washington Post Co.-owned site. Mr. Weigel will keep a blog about the conservative movement as he did for the Post, and Read More
Here’s a curious coda to l’affair Journolist: though David Weigel was squeezed out at The Washington Post for appearing overly liberal in his posts to the off-the-record listserv, the Washington Post Company apparently has no problem with him writing for their online magazine Slate.
His story today, “Bouncers for the Tea Read More
Howard Kurtz and David Carr took 10 days to chew the cud of Dave Weigel.
Mr. Kurtz and Mr. Carr, the head media columnists at the Washington Post and The New York Times respectively, offered post–holiday weekend columns today that reflect on the case of the former Washington Post blogger who by now has Read More
To quote Noah Shachtman’s March profile of Andrew Breitbart in Wired, “Breitbart is, in short, expert in making the journalism industry his bitch. ‘The market has forced me to come up with techniques to be noticed,’ Breitbart says. ‘And now that I have them, I’m like, wow, this is actually great. This is fun.’” Read More
If Dave Weigel’s time at The Washington Post saw the MSNBC-ification of the paper, his resignation on Friday has brought the MSNBC-ification of Dave Weigel.
Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann introduced Mr. Weigel as an “MSNBC contributor.” (Is that a job?) Mr. Olbermann also announced the hire on Twitter, according to Read More
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