![]() ![]() Granted, that story, especially the first half, would have a lot less to do with Ezra Klein than it would with the general orientation of a large group of bloggers, some in roughly Ezra's generation but many not, who place policy far more in the center of their interest in politics than has traditionally been the case with most reporters. That's an interesting story! Perhaps even more interesting than who he spoke with at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. That's an important story! Not only that, but he's expanded into his current format while maintaining consistent, terrific quality. Ezra is exactly right that policy was (and is) undercovered by the general-interest press, but presumably that's systematic, and he's found a way to break through that, somehow. The thing about Wonkblog is how astonishingly good it is. Why is Ezra Klein doing this at the Washington Post? Ĭan Wonkblog survive at the Washington Post, or will its DNA destroy Wonkblog as we know it? Why doesn't Wonkblog face more competition, or at least see more attempted imitators? Just what is Ezra Klein doing that gets him 100,000 page views a day (it is a very good day on which I get more than 50,000) and makes out-of-town newspaper bureau chiefs and senior senatorial staffers say that they learn "more from Ezra Klein on any given day than from the entire national news staff of the New York Times? I think Ed Kilgore nails it: Ezra has a great talent for collegiality.īack to DeLong: he points out four really interesting questions Ioffe could have tried to answer in her profile: On the other hand, I'd take his support to be pretty convincing evidence that he is not, as Ioffe believes, always looking "upward" - I mean, really, when Ezra first took notice of me I couldn't have been more of a nobody, and even now it's hard to see that there's much percentage in it for him in (as he does) occasionally tweeting out one of my posts. To begin with: for those who don't know, Ezra Klein has always been a terrific friend and supporter of Plain Blog, of me, and of political scientists in general. To Brad DeLong, who takes apart a Julia Ioffe TNR profile of Ezra Klein.
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