Weigel Says He Treated 'The List' Like a Dive Bar

Former WaPo blogger Dave Weigel offers explanations for his behavior on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism site today in a first-person story bearing the headline, “Hubris and Humility: David Weigel Comes Clean on Washington Post, the D.C. Bubble, & the ‘Journolist.’

In it, Weigel discusses the lure of Journolist, his cockiness and what happens next.

An explanation

•To use a phrase that I’m rolling my eyes at even as I type it: Nobody told me this in journalism school.

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