Klein explains the nice policy this way: Unkind writing is unthoughtful writing.
This is a rule James Fallows has that I’ve adopted. “Because if you’ve gone through the trouble to write a book? And I just don’t think it’s that good?” Klein told me, breaking into his occasional habit of lilting at the end of each clause. Klein now says that he will not write a negative book review.
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Once there, it didn’t take him long to figure out how to adapt to the customs of elite Washington: One must be nice and above it all. In 2009, the Post took notice and, looking to bring in some new media talent, hired Klein. But those things are in long supply in journalism.Īnd he was doing good work, particularly on health care, making sense of a controversial and highly politicized topic well before the issue became national news. How’s he done it? Talent and hard work, certainly. That he’s this successful at 28 naturally annoys the hell out of his competition. He frequently subs in for Rachel Maddow, on MSNBC, where he is also on contract as a contributor, and, recently, there were rumors that Klein was on track to get his own show on the channel. He is a columnist for Bloomberg View. He has a book deal. “He’s always had enough traffic to end any argument with the senior editors.” On top of this, Klein writes a regular column for the print edition of the Post, as well as long features for The New Yorker. “It’s ‘fuck you traffic,'” one of Klein’s Post colleagues told me. His Wonkblog, which started out as a solo venture and has since swollen to include a staff of five, has arguably become the Post‘s most successful project, bringing in over four million page views every month.
He’s gone from one of many voices of the Juicebox Mafia to easily the most important young journalist in DC. I’ve followed Ezra’s career since was he was a kid at UCLA blogging at Pandagon, having linked to him at least as early as nine years ago, through his migration to the LA Weekly and his creation of a mini-empire at the Washington Post. TNR has a longish profile titled “ Ezra Klein: The Wise Boy, A tale of striving and success in modern-day Washington.”
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