The Washington Post Wades Back Into the Blogosphere
In the wake of the Washington PostBlogging Debacle, the newspaper is now starting over in the blogosphere: the paper is now actively looking to hire one conservative blogger and one liberal blogger to create a kind of "Point-Counterpoint" of Blogging.
If you missed the blogging mishap of the legendary newspaper, here's the Cliff Notes Version: The Post's online manager hired Ben Domenech, an extremely conservative blogger, to "counter" the liberal bias of one of the paper's editorial writers. The new blogger, who co-founded RedState.org, was fired within the week after both liberal and conservative bloggers erupted over the discovery that Domenech was a serial plagiarizer. Salon.com ran an entire piece listing all the work that Domenech has stolen from its site. Domenech becomes a blogging pariah and the Post looks much like the New York Times did after the Jayson Blair story broke: ridiculous.
Bloggers with journalism experience should start networking, because it's likely that other newspapers will also follow suit. Plagiarizers need not apply, though.
