I am glad that Josh stands up for his writers when they’ve been erroneously called out for what they’ve written.
But in the case of the original article by Alana Levinson, Josh erred egregiously by defending the swill that she passed off as an “opinion piece.”
It was a hit piece—without any question—and didn’t contain even a scintilla of fact to back up her contention.
If Josh is serious about what TPM publishes, he should post an apology for allowing that garbage in the first place, and if she’s going to stay employed at TPM, Josh should pay for Ms. Levinson to take some classes in responsible journalism, which seems like foreign territory to her, judging by her article.