Obama's Dinner Mates are Outed While David Weigel Speaks With His Nemesis, Plus Other News of the Day

– Normally, those reporters attending an off-the-record chat with President Barack Obama wouldn’t be much news, except the reporters wanted to keep it secret. Eleven reporters in total sat with the prez, including representatives from The Washington Post, Politico and The Wall Street Journal. See, that wasn’t so bad. Why the need for secrecy?

– Our sister site FishbowlDC talked to Slate‘s newest blogger David Weigel. If you remember correctly, it was FishbowlDC that first published Weigel’s email correspondence on Journolist, which led to him stepping away from the Washington Post.

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