Washington Post searching for bloggers from the right and left

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Washington_Post_searching_for_bloggers_from_0407.html

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.

The paper doesn’t plan on making any formal announcement, but the news should be welcome to many critics on the left who felt that it was unfair to hire just a conservative blogger in the first place.

Many felt that the hiring of Domenech had something to do with a column written by Howell last December (The Two Washington Posts) which was critical of one of the more popular bloggers at washingtonpost.com.

"Political reporters at The Post don't like WPNI columnist Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing," which is highly opinionated and liberal," wrote Howell, and that Brady was thinking of "supplementing it with a conservative blogger."

[Nickster]

1. I nominate Jesus General for the right wing blogger! n/t

[BootinUp]

6. you are a real heterosexual!

:yourock:

[UpInArms]

2. where Billy Pilgrim?

n/t

[Tanuki]

3. "political reporters at the The Post dont like Dan Froomkin's ..."

Sounds like Deborah Howell is playing the straw men game, or maybe it's sort of like all of those donations that she claimed Abramoff made to Democrats, and then pouted and equivocated when everyone called her hand and pointed out that she was either an incompetent journalist or a liar.

[NMDemDist2]

4. i nominate brainshrub!

he rocks!

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/brainshrub

[brainshrub]

9. You are too kind.

Thanks for the compliment. If my journal or regular blog is any good, it's because I've been learning from the people on DU.

[ixion]

5. rude pundit

that'll shake up the WAPO. :evilgrin:

[Radio_Lady]

7. Who's in Washington, DC who wants the job? I just told --

Skinner that he's an excellent writer.

By the way, Skinner squashed the rumor that he's leaving the DU, which was posted by another DUer on April 1st. We assume it was an April Fool's Joke that "went too far."

[Nickster]

8. OMG, YES! That would be great, heck he even auditioned already. n/t

[Voltaire99]

10. I can imagine what WaPo considers "left"

Gosh, how about a pro-military, pro-corporate DINO!