A Word About Politico's New Hire...

Politico recently hired Timothy Noah to be the publication’s Labor & Employment editor. Now Noah is a former Slate and New Republic columnist who’s known for being stridently liberal, so if you are an employer or someone who generally just likes reading coverage of labor issues that isn’t slanted toward a pro-union bias, this was a problematic hire.

Noah’s hiring, however, wasn’t nearly as interesting as who he then hired. To help him cover the labor beat, Noah hired Mike Elk, formerly of Huffington Post and In These Times, the latter of which was basically a communist newspaper a few decades ago. I hesitate to call Elk a reporter — he’s really more of a activist who happens to call sources.