Liberal Blogger Gets Big-Time Gig

Congrats to Ezra Klein, whose ‘Tapped’ blog over at The American Prospect  has been ‘bulo must-reading for some time now.

He will now write for the Washington Post.

The Beast Who Slumbers wants to share these inspirational words from Klein’s farewell post. Because it demonstrates the potential and power of the blogosphere:

But we’ve also learned to pay attention to adult things. The Prospect has been doing that for almost two decades now, and they provided me with a home to do the same. And the Prospect was right. Turns out that you can build an audience with charts and graphs and hearings and budget commentary. The words “reconciliation,” “nationalization,” and “community rating” do not scare readers away. Scatterplots do not harm your traffic. Indeed, the Washington Post is asking me to cover the same topics in the same way at their site. But I would never have had this opportunity, or been able to build this model, without TAP — both the space it gave me and the guidance it provided me. I’ll be forever grateful to it.

Which is why, even though I’m leaving, I urge you to stay. That’s not to say you shouldn’timmediately bookmark my new blog and check it obsessively every day. It’ll have that same great Ezra taste, but with more resources around to make my charts look pretty.