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He lost his job because the comments lost him all credibility amongst those he would be covering. Also, are there any conservatives on Journolist? I thought it

• hga 16y ago
  Much more than that. It explicitly exists to manage the news, to coordinate stories and to achieve "epistemic closure" of competing narratives (i.e. to shut down discussion of the inconvenient, as he tried to do by describing Congresscritter Bob Etheridge's assault of a "student" on the street questioner as a "hug" and then shifted the focus to the "Who Are You?" question). Discussion of that based on leaked Weigel Journolist emails WRT to two incidents can be found e.g. here: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/25/the-overlooked-story-from-the-weigel-kerfuffle/ http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/25/the-overlooked-story-f... It also serves as a method to connect young liberals to older ones for jobs, etc. As the Instapundit reports from a journalist reader of his blog: "A friend who was on the List and works at a major newspaper told me recently, and I quote verbatim: “Journolist was basically a jobs program for liberals in DC.” This person said that it was used to link up the older, more established set with the younger up-and-comers, all to better staff newspapers, magazines, and institutions with liberals. And it is worth adding that this was said by a very liberal person who was not speaking the least bit apologetically." (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/101932/ http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/101932/) One can imagine the howls of protest of the existential threat to the Republic such a list would generate ... if it was populated by conservatives.