Report: Ezra Klein to Leave WaPo After Jeff Bezos Kills $10M Dream Project

Breitbart.com ^ | 1/3/2014 | Warner Todd Huston

[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.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Maybe this smarmy little punk can get a grant from the White House.

[Billthedrill]

The comments are killing me. BTT.

[ConservativeInPA]

It couldn’t happen to a better pajama boy.

[Berlin_Freeper]

MSNBC's Ezra Klein Describes How ObamaCare Could Make Insurance Unaffordable

[Haiku Guy]

How can a Moron,
A really stupid Moron,
Also be a Wonk?

[mykroar]

Comment:Anytime Klein writes about Obama, it’s like reading a Tiger Beat story about Justin Bieber.

[Utilizer]

The comments are killing me.

What comments?

[Billthedrill]

The comments at the bottom of the Breitbart article. There are 656 of them as I write.

[GeronL]

I guess it wasn’t important enough to include, but what was this project he wanted someone else to fund?

[Billthedrill]

It was a eight-figure ($10 mil at least) website that would produce "explanatory" journalism under the Post's rubric. Story HERE.

[sickoflibs]

He’s got a home at MSNBC but he may not get paid for those guest appearances.

[GeronL]

In other words Wiki-Journalism

What a stupid idea

[Billthedrill]

$10 mil for a website. Klein was looking to cash in.

[Utilizer]

Hmmm. I am looking at the Breitbart article now... Perhaps the AdBlock or Ghostery apps are more effective than I originally thought, because other than the FoxLinks I do not see any comments. Oh, well. Thanks for the info anyways, mate.

[GeronL]

yep

[Billthedrill]

My pleasure. Mind you, that is one of the most annoying websites on my bookmark list. You click on it, you get the obligatory exhortation to register, the wait for the ads to stream in, and heaven help you if you roll your mouse over one of them. The only thing it's missing in annoyance level is blasting sound from a video you don't want to see in the first place...

(sound of hyperventilating...)

[Dick Bachert]

Hey, Ez, take up the GLOBAL WARMING cudgel and the FEDERAL GRANT MONEY and contributions will flow like water.

Hey, it worked for 70% of the “scientific” grant whores and Algore!

[what's up]

What is "explanatory journalism"?

Is this where Marxists try to pass themselves off as journalists by "explaining" why social justice is the best way to go?

[Colinsky]

“Explanatory journalism” is the verbal anesthetic they plan to use while shunting the proles back down to nineteenth-century technology.