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Why the Washington Post Switched Bloggers

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Look past Jeff Bezos’s politics. Wonkblogger Ezra Klein’s departure—and his successor—should be celebrated by the most serious news junkies.

Here in the media bubble, there’s a lot of inside-baseball speculation about why, pretty much as soon as Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, the venerable paper chose to do without marquee Wonkblogger Ezra Klein—and scooped up the group blog of veteran lawblogger Eugene Volokh.

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