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)