EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

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

in person he and Steve Kornacki blur into garrulous sincerity

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 21, 2014

may be, but in terms of their presentation and focus as cable-hosts, they're very different. kornacki might make a career out of investigating chris christie (it seems like the perfect story for kornacki), and maybe it will transform up into something of kornacki's own. but i always felt like hyper-wonky klein should have succeeded hayes on up, and kornacki should have been given another show. anyway, i hope that as part of his new entrepreneurial endeavors, klein gets more time on msnbc to be a policy wonk (i wish hayes got back to being a policy wonk, too, btw).

politico prob just has some evil billionaire investor set on the destruction of democracy funding it

one good thing about this is that we'll have to see the word 'wonk' less frequently

unless he calls it like webwonk or something horrible

you know he will still ride for WONK

thats him brand

hes a drag queen whos persona is WONK

new site new word

ronk

donk

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/123/8d0029025ed44be6b1a84df485ce834b/l.jpg

wonkcoin

otm

I can't believe he already published the first issue dude is amazing

very amazing work ethic truly a wunderkind

with their powers combined ezra could write articles about things before they happened and amazon could send you the paper before you wanted it

what a missed opportunity

this one chart is coming from inside your house

wait so where do u read ezra klein now?

look inside

your own butt

may be, but in terms of their presentation and focus as cable-hosts, they're very different. kornacki might make a career out of investigating chris christie (it seems like the perfect story for kornacki), and maybe it will transform up into something of kornacki's own.

No doubt. Kornacki's a good reporter, and Christie's giving him a chance to carve his own identity (before this he flaunted his amazing knowledge of the life of Jerry Brown)

no ten million dollars inside of my butt last time i checked

should I post a gif

go for it

no

Ezra Klein ‏@ezraklein 11m
NYT has this wrong: There’s nothing more glamorous than a great CMS. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/business/media/ezra-klein-leaving-washington-post.html

sounds like hes going with vox and their world famous cms, iirc he was a frequent subtweeter at the posts cms

vox are v smart people imo and he would be wise to jump on board, theyve built huge properties in the most crowded fields in the verge and sbnation and other stuff too, and everyone says their cms is tite if youre into hat sort of thing

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5307992/inside-the-mind-of-a-fanboy

that's actually not the best example

is there a good new nyt paywall workaround?

"reset safari" if you use safari works

No doubt. Kornacki's a good reporter, and Christie's giving him a chance to carve his own identity (before this he flaunted his amazing knowledge of the life of Jerry Brown)

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 21, 2014

exactly right. kornacki's a talent. it was kind of unfair to make him host of a show that has an audience expecting a hyper-wonky discussion.

I hate the word "wonky" tbh.

not my favorite word, either, but i hate slang and most jargon. so how about "policy-focused."

"knowledge"

wonkish is useful as a term, i think of it as an attempt to rinse out gross imf-era connotation of "technocrat" or "neoliberal" to more domestic focused policy nerds

used by bloggers i think wonky or wonkish is often used as a disclaimer signifying "will now operate under the assumption that the reader took a 100-level econ course in college"

more details re Klein's leaving the W. Post

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/ezra-klein-leaves-washington-post-102424.html?hp=t1

But when Klein proposed the creation of an independent, explanatory journalism website — with more than three dozen staffers and a multiyear budget north of $10 million — the Post said enough is enough. Indeed, Jeff Bezos, the Post’s new owner, and Katharine Weymouth, its publisher, never even offered an alternative figure, sources familiar with the negotiations said.

it's funny that after bezos bought the post everyone was like "hundreds of million dollars is pocket change to the guy!!" and now ezra is like "throw me $10+ million over a few years" and they're like "...nah"

he prob thought it was the perfect time to fleece this rube