Did Ben Smith bury the lede in his article on the Washington Post‘s left-leaning online presence (“Washington Post shifts leftward online“)? According to Smith’s account,  Weigel was hired by editors who thought he was a conservative who would provide “balance.” And he was hired on the recommendation or their liberal blogger Ezra Klein. Klein, for his part, says he “presented [Weigel] to the paper simply as the best reporter on the subject.”

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