Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation

Published: October 2, 2007, 8:14 pm

Tags: media, david corn, mother jones, the nation

I think my bureau will be almost as big as the Time magazine bureau, David Corn was telling The Observer on Monday afternoon, a kid-in-a-candy-store excitement in his voice. That morning, Mr. Corn whose name for years has been synonymous with the Washington coverage of the country's most prominent magazine of the left, The Nation had been named the D.C. bureau chief of Mother Jones, the San Francisco based liberal bi-monthly. He's not wrong: Time currently has seven Washington reporters devoted to covering politics the same number as Mother Jones, with the addition of Mr. Corn. The magazine's aggressive Washington strategy, coming as it does at a time when most mainstream news outlets are cutting back, may be a sign that in this election season, the lefty media is generating all the heat. In the past few months, Mother Jones has assembled a team of liberal-media name-checks like James Ridgeway, the longtime Washington correspondent of The Village Voice; Laura

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