The Raw Story reports that Washingtonpost.com editor Jim Brady is seeking to replace Ben Domenech’s short-lived “Red America” blog with two blogs: one liberal, one conservative.

I think this is the wrong approach. Washingtonpost.com does not suffer from a lack of liberal commentary. And setting up a cheap, Crossfire-style pair of opinionators is just so old.

At Washingtonpost.com, you’ve got liberal blogger Dan Froomkin writing about the White House at “White House Briefing.” You’ve got liberal blogger Jefferson Morley writing about international affairs at “World Opinion Roundup.” So here’s a thought: Why not give a conservative writer a similar beat and let him or her blog that beat from a conservative perspective?

Jim Brady hired Ben Domenech to be a conservative provocateur, and he now seeks to rectify that mistake by hiring a liberal provocateur as well. Unfortunately, the blogosphere already has plenty of both.

What we need at places like Washingtonpost.com are conservative reporters, the addition of which would solve two problems — the shortage of conservative perspectives on Washingtonpost.com, and the shortage of original reporting in the blogosphere. I don’t need Jim Brady to give me Daily Kos and Power Line. I need Jim Brady to bring more people like Byron York and Stephen F. Hayes into the blogosphere.