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Report: Ezra Klein to Leave WaPo After Jeff Bezos Kills $10M Dream Project
Breitbart.com ^ | 1/3/2014 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 01/03/2014 7:00:52 PM PST by RoosterRedux

As new owner Jeff Bezos begins his tenure as the head man for the Washington Post, Wonkblog editor Ezra Klein is reportedly making plans to exit the paper after being denied funding for a pet project.

Klein built a media presence on the Internet, newspapers, and TV as a "wonk" at a young age. Now, he apparently wants to expand his reach in the media with an extensive new website that he wanted the Washington Post to fund.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; ezraklein; jeffbezos; katharineweymouth; martybaron; washingtonpost
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To: RoosterRedux
"costing eight figures,"

Who pays eight figures to design a website? Besides the Obama administration?

21 posted on 01/03/2014 8:55:56 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: what's up
What is "explanatory journalism"?

Ezra Klein is first.

22 posted on 01/03/2014 10:13:35 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> he apparently wants to expand his reach in the media with an extensive new website that he wanted the Washington Post to fund.

Thanks RoosterRedux.


23 posted on 01/03/2014 11:27:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Billthedrill

Not everyone can find as big a sucker as Aureole Pufnstuff did.


24 posted on 01/03/2014 11:47:15 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Utilizer

You can ask Ghostery to unblock comments by hovering over the little Ghostery icon where the comments usually are. It will give you the option to view comments “just this once” if you click on it.

Best wishes.


25 posted on 01/04/2014 8:09:03 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Billthedrill
Found it. Ghostery was blocking disqus by default. I had to uninstall then reinstall it to enable disqus to work. It was enabled by default, so now I have learned to customize the settings before browsing with it.

Of course, now I have to work with it for a few days to disable only the most annoying of trackers and widgets on the browser. Thanks again for letting Me know that I was missing something on the webpage in question. Always good to know that part of the information I was looking for was not being displayed.

26 posted on 01/04/2014 9:04:32 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: TheOldLady

Thank you for the information, dear lady. *smile*


27 posted on 01/04/2014 9:06:03 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Colinsky

Verbal anesthetic...never heard of that but it sure fits for what the NYT tried to do with the benghazi story the other day. Yes...I’m sure Klein would be into that.


28 posted on 01/04/2014 1:02:47 PM PST by what's up
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To: Utilizer

You are most welcome. [smiles back atcha!]


29 posted on 01/04/2014 6:50:30 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: RoosterRedux

Klein, founder and father of the secret propaganda cabal “Journ-o-list,” was never a “health care wonk” in the sense he was an expert on the issue. On the contrary, he learned enough to throw around industry terms and make the prospect of socialized medicine SEEM as if there was some rational basis or science behind it. There wasn’t, and isn’t.

Klein is and was nothing more than a leftist propagandist. That he formed the “Journ-o-list” to “manage” the news by ensuring all the reporters put the same spin on stories and carefully dole out “facts” in a way the public could not “misunderstand” proves that beyond any argument or doubt.

Klein began backtracking on ObamaCare for the same reason some leftists will hedge on Stalin: they wish to argue that communism was not the problem, but rather its poor execution, and “pure communism has never been tried.” That’s what Klein wanted to do, maintain that nationalized health care was still good even if Obama is an incompetent buffoon. But he was bludgeoned back into the fold as leftist apostates always are - IF they don’t wish to be exiled forever.


30 posted on 01/19/2014 1:23:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Billthedrill

$10 mil for a website.
Who does he think he is, the federal government?


31 posted on 01/19/2014 1:26:41 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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