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==''WaPo'' Driving the "Right"==
The ''Washington Post'' has hired [[Ben Domenech]], co-founder of the [[conservative]] [http://www.redstate.com/ ''RedState.orgcom''], to write a new daily blog on its website called [http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redamerica/ ''Red America''], ''Editor & Publisher'' [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002200090 reported] March 21, 2006.
"After a stint as chief speechwriter for Senator [[John Cornyn]] (R-Tx.), he co-founded [RedState.org com] and became a book editor at [[Regnery Publishing]], where he worked with [[Michelle Malkin]] and others," ''E&P'' wrote.
Domenech is "also known as a [[George W. Bush|Bush]] appointee, and the son of a Bush appointee, and as a contributor to ''National Review Online''," Joe Conason [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/03/24/domenech_blog/index.html reported] in ''Slate'' March 24, 2006. "That decision by Post management has provoked much speculation about its motive for employing Domenech. Many observers surmise that Domenech was brought on to 'balance' Dan Froomkin, the popular [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html ''White House Briefing''] blogger on ''WashingtonPost.com'' whose skepticism and wit have provoked whining from the right -- and defensive reactions from certain Post reporters worried by accusations of 'liberal bias' at the paper."
"Froomkin has spent a decade at the Post, and also worked for the ''Winston-Salem Journal'', the ''Miami Herald'' and the ''Orange County Register''. Froomkin is also deputy editor of niemanwatchdog.org, the web site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University," ''E&P'' wrote.
"Whatever Froomkin's political views may be, he is a veteran reporter with a long résumé of newspaper jobs, including a decade at the ''Post''. Domenech is a partisan operative with no newsroom experience of any kind, no training in journalistic standards and ethics, and nothing to guide him except home schooling and [[Republican Party|Republican]] reflexes," Conason wrote.
==Corporate blogging==
