EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

Matt Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 44m
Everyone praising Red Lobster's cheesy biscuits should look up "exception that proves the rule."

damn, harsh

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matt yglesias is a pretty good blogger like i understand why everyone hates him because he is disgusting but hes pretty good, also he writes a lot of posts which is good

wait, why is yglesias "disgusting"?

just like a disgusting human

the sad thing is he's actually probably one of the best things on slate, he's only really bad if you compare him to, yknow, good things

hes pretty good tho

on the other hand ive decided ezra is not good and i unfollowed him and dont read him anymore

ezra is just dumb srsly no clue get a clue ezra

I agree with the above posts by lagoon

ezra was fooled by paul ryans brainy young republican with charts routine never forget

guess we now know how much Ezra Klein isn't worth to WaPo

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oops
that was a tweet showing that Eric Ries is excited to back Ezra's startup.

Un fucking believable.

http://yellowhammernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/YH-Bill-Simmons-and-Nate-Silver.png

not pictured: ezra klein

they both look very focused

After consultation with the newspaper’s editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, he put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/business/media/blogger-said-to-plan-to-leave-the-post.html

8 figures!

some sort of gold website or something

mansplanatory journalism

Dude knows you can set up a wordpress blog for free, right?

yes but does the post

the eight figures he was asking for sounds more like he wanted the post to just give him all the money and hed do it himself, where grantland and 538 prob have their own editorial budgets id imagine lots of their technical and promotional stuff is just handled by espn, like the site lives on their servers etc, the whole thing in some ways is just a branding exercise, sounds like klein wanted a more independent thing like what greenwald is doing cause if youre just gonna hire some reporters it not gonna cost $10m

its interesting you see a lot of these sort of sub publications or sections or w/e like wonkblog or dealbook thatre kind of separate but still obvs under the banner of their parent publications, no one else seems to want to go as far as espn is going, they dont want to give up all their little links and logos all over the place

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/01/07/extreme_cold_is_better_than_extreme_heat.html

feel like he's slowly turning into henry blodget

Wonkblog ‏@Wonkblog
It's official: Ezra is leaving the Post. Hoping for the best for him.

ezra taking dylan matthews with him is worse than ezra leaving the post

Alexis C. Madrigal ‏@alexismadrigal 37m
The strangest thing here is that 4 million pageviews a month is ... downright modest. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/ezra-klein-leaves-washington-post-102424.html

i mean for a "blog" that's pretty good but it's certainly not sustaining a web site or anything

yeah i wonder if hes as famous as he thinks he is

if that's 4m uniques it would make a bit more sense

its weird hes never written a book

for comparison at the height of election season nate silver was getting more traffic than that a day

well tbf ezra's web traffic is not 4 million random bozos in montana like one of the views is barack obama

he is worth like 1.5 views really

very not mysterious why an analytical business guy like bezos wouldnt want to write klein a big check for a site he wants to co own

well tbf ezra's web traffic is not 4 million random bozos in montana like one of the views is barack obama

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does the president use ad block tho

all the ads will be native duh

Ezra hasn't yet found flattering TV glasses imo

in person he and Steve Kornacki blur into garrulous sincerity

hey michelle check out this list 10 things only 70s kids who are also the president will understand lol so true

'I don't think that's funny'
'oh yeah I guess...you're not the president'

Eric Fisher ‏@EricFisherSBJ 11m

Numbers are in - Richard Sherman piece on The http://MMQB.com drives 4.3M uniques yesterday - highest day in SI Digital history

lol i dont think thats the url youre looking for

http://mmqb.si.com

think i mentioned this before but you see how si cant quite make mmqb its own site, its url is a sub domain and theres si navigation in header and footer, where grantland is all its own stuff, much clearer more confident branding imo

politico's web traffic can't be that high either (relatively speaking) but I think they get by on the same idea, it's not how many it's who