Mr. Weigel was the victim of a "not invented here" reflex that many legacy media companies still possess. He was not, as they say, "one of us," but one of "them," brought in to sprinkle new-media pixie dust on a mainstream newspaper that was hemmed in by political and journalistic convention.

Dave Weigel had been fired from The Washington Post

The Media Equation (4 July 2010)


Mr. Weigel was the victim of a not invented here reflex that many legacy media companies still possess. He was not, as they say, one of us, but one...

Mr. Weigel was the victim of a not invented here reflex that many legacy media companies still possess. He was not, as they say, one of us, but one...

Mr. Weigel was the victim of a not invented here reflex that many legacy media companies still possess. He was not, as they say, one of us, but one...

Mr. Weigel was the victim of a not invented here reflex that many legacy media companies still possess. He was not, as they say, one of us, but one...