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Ezra Klein is an American journalist, blogger, and political commentator. He works as editor-at-large of Vox. Previously he was a blogger and columnist for The Washington Post and an associate editor of The American Prospect. Ezra has served as a contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC.
Vox is an American news website owned by Vox Media. The website was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell, and is noted for its concept of explanatory journalism. Vox's media presence also includes a YouTube channel, several podcasts, and a show presented on Netflix. Vox is an American news website owned by Vox Media.The website was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell, and is noted for its concept of explanatory journalism. Vox's media presence also includes a YouTube channel, several podcasts, and a show presented on Netflix.Vox has been described as left-of-center and progressive.
Ezra Klein Biography
He managed a branded blog, “Wonkblog, “at The Washington Post which featured his writing and the writing of other policy reporters. The issues which were discussed in the blog included health care and budget policy. Ezra wrote a primer on a policy called “Wonkbook”, which was delivered by e-mail and on his blog each morning.
Ezra left The Washington Post in January 2014. He works for Vox Media as editor-at-large for their news website, Vox. Initially, he had co-founded the website along with Melissa Bell and Matthew Yglesias and served as its editor-in-chief.
He went to school at University High School. Ezra attended the University of California, Santa Cruz. He later transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in political science. While at UCSC, he applied to write for the City on a Hill Press but was rejected.
Ezra Klein Age
Ezra was born on May 9, 1984, in Irvine, California.
Ezra Klein Height
Ezra has not revealed any details about his height and weight.
Ezra Klein Family
Ezra was born and raised in Irvine, California. She is the daughter of Abel Klein, a mathematics professor at University of California, Irvine, originally from Brazil and his mother who is an artist. He is a middle child, brought up in a Jewish family.
Annie Lowrey Ezra Klein
Ezra is married to Annie Lowrey, an economic policy reporter at The Atlantic.The couple live in Oakland California, and they have one child, born six weeks preterm in February 2019.
Who Is Ezra Klein
Ezra is the editor-at-large and founder of Vox. Previously he was columnist and editor at the Washington Post, a policy analyst at MSNBC, and a contributor to Bloomberg. Ezra has written for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and appeared on Face the Nation, Real Time with Bill Maher, The McLaughlin Report, the Daily Show, and many more.
Ezra Klein Podcast
Ezra along with Sarah Kliff and Matt Yglesias, launched The Weeds, a Vox podcast of detailed discussions on public policy in October 2015. He also hosts the podcast “The Ezra Klein Show”. Ezra is an executive producer of Vox’s Netflix series Explained, which debuted in 2018.”
The Ezra Klein Show gives his fans a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media.
Ezra Klein Vox
Ezra announced that he would be leaving The Washington Post in January 2014, with the aim of starting a new media venture with several other veteran journalists. The new media venture was later identified as the politics site Vox.
Initially Ezra had “proposed the creation of an independent, explanatory journalism website with more than three dozen staffers” and an annual budget of more than US$10 million to remain at The Washington Post. During negotiations, Post publisher Katharine Weymouth and new owner Jeff Bezos did not make a counteroffer.
Ezra Klein Sam Harris
Sam Harris, host of the Waking Up podcast, and Ezra have been going back and forth over an interview Harris did with TheBell Curve author Charles Murray. In that interview, which first aired almost a year ago, Harris and Murray argued that African Americans are, for a combination of genetic and environmental reasons, intrinsically and immutably less intelligent than white Americans, and Murray argued that the implications of this “forbidden knowledge” should shape social policy. Vox published a piece criticizing the conversation, Harris was offended by the piece and challenged me to a debate, and after a lot of back-and-forth, this is that debate.
Ezra Klein MSNBC
Ezra frequently provides political commentary on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. He is a former contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The Week magazine reported on March 14, 2013 that Ezra was among those being considered to host MSNBC’s yet-unnamed 8 p.m. weekday prime-time show that would replace The Ed Show. Ultimately, the time slot was filled with All In with Chris Hayes.
Ezra Klein New Book
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future—from journalist, political commentator, and co-founder of Vox, Ezra Klein.
Ezra Klein Net Worth
Ezra has an estimated net worth of $3.7 million but his salary is not revealed yet.
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Ezra created a Google Groups forum called “JournoList” in February 2007 . It was for discussing politics and the news media. Ezra controlled the forum’s membership and limited to “several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics”.
The posts within JournoList were meant only to be made and read by its members. Ezra defended the forum saying that it “[ensures] that folks feel safe giving off-the-cuff analysis and instant reactions”. Time magazine columnist Joe Klein (no relation to Ezra Klein) and JournoList member added that the off-the-record nature of the forum was necessary because “candor is essential and can only be guaranteed by keeping these conversations private”.
In a July 27, 2007 blog post,the existence of JournoList was first publicly revealed by blogger Mickey Kaus. Initially , the forum did not attract serious attention until March 17, 2009, when an article published on Politico detailed the nature of the forum and the extent of its membership.
The Politico article raised a debate within the blogosphere over the ethics of participating in JournoList and raised questions about its purpose. On March 26, 2009 the first public excerpt of a discussion within JournoList was posted by Mickey Kaus on his blog.
Earlier this week, Ph.D. neuroscientist turned pop-philosopher Sam Harris invited Vox Editor-at-Large Ezra Klein to debate Harris on his popular podcast. The topic: Harris’s decision to feature Charles Murray for the purposes of defending him— from charges of racism, on his show last year. Murray is famous in part for writing The Bell Curve, which included a controversial chapter which mentions racial differences in IQ. But this isn’t Klein’s first flirtation with character assassinations.
My podcast with @ezraklein is now available on the #wakinguppodcast:
'Identity & Honesty'https://t.co/vlztlpmVzXpic.twitter.com/5ITSkSB3BP
— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) April 9, 2018
In case you missed it, Harris and Klein have been feuding publicly since Murray appeared on Harris’s show last year. Vox published a piece attacking Harris for featuring Murray, accusing the two of participating in “pseudoscientific racialist speculation.” Vox then refused to publish a rebuttal written by Richard Haier, respected psychologist and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Intelligence. (It finally found a home at this publication, here.) Next, Harris released his email correspondence with Klein, and that eventually led to this week’s heated podcast. Mid-way through the podcast, Harris says:
you appear to be willing to believe people… are not speaking with real integrity about data because it serves political ends, and you appear to be willing to help destroy people’s reputations who take the other side of these conversations.
Throughout the conflict, Harris has argued that false claims of racism represent a moral panic that can severely damage the lives of real people, including Murray and himself. Instead, he believes we should dispassionately analyze facts as they are, i.e. scientists need to be able to be scientists. Meanwhile, Klein sees Murray’s scholarship as a tool to harm African Americans, which he justifies by citing Murray’s libertarian beliefs in shrinking government welfare programs.
That view cuts to the core of the difference between the Right and the Left on economic policy: The Right believes a smaller government and a less regulated economy can benefit everyone, especially impoverished minorities who have the most to gain. The Left believes a larger government, along with taxpayer-funded social welfare programs, are the only way to reverse the disparate impact of generations of racism.
The Left, however, is unique in attributing racist tendencies to those who disagree. Ezra Klein is no stranger to this practice, and he’s well aware of how opinion journalists will work together to amplify such slanderous accusations; he witnessed it on his very own platform.
Before founding Vox, Ezra Klein gained notoriety for starting an online listserv for progressive journalists called “JournoList.” Leaked messages from The Daily Caller showed some left-wing opinion journalists in the group attempted to coordinate messages, and suggested members to use certain angles to push their political agendas. JournoList counted influential liberal spokesmen such as Eric Alterman of The Nation, Jeffrey Toobin of CNN, and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, as members.
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During the 2008 elections, when Obama’s connection to controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright entered the news, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent messaged:
What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.
And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares and call them racists.
Sound like a familiar tactic?
After the JournoList story broke, Ezra Klein shut it down, but then the current Vox editor, Matthew Yglesias, headed up the former members to coordinate their responses in their various outlets to the controversy. Yglesias has also since attacked Harris as a racist on Twitter.
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The intellectual journey from atheism to Islam-bashing to scientific racism is fascinating.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 29, 2018
Not all JournoList members agreed on every tactic, and I don’t use its example to allege a vast-left-wing conspiracy, but I use it to show that Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias are familiar with the tactic of slandering opponents as racist and coordinating that narrative behind closed doors. Yet Klein denied doing the same thing to Harris and Murray on this week’s podcast.
Harris accused Klein of acting in bad faith, from the start of this dispute. He walked that back on this week’s podcast, but he was right the first time.
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Klein ought to stop deploying the disingenuous journalistic practice of regurgitating falsehoods for political purposes. You’d have thought he’d have learned his lesson the first time with JournoList.
Sam Harris and Ezra Klein’s mutual friend Andrew Sullivan wrote a piece decrying what happened with JournoList: “what’s depressing is the way in which liberal journalists are not responding to events in order to find out the truth, but playing strategic games to cover or not cover events and controversies in order to win a media/political war.”
That quote could just as easily apply to what Klein and Vox have done to Harris and Murray.
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