I just saw that movie again last night, "The Postman"......interesting. WaPo is off my list, too.

So let me understand Salon's position:

It's just fine to fire an Inspector General because his politics is to the right of the individual for whom he "serves at the pleasure of".

It's not fine to fire a columnist because his politics is to the left of the individual for whom "he serves at the pleasure of".

One case is justified, the other is somehow shady.

Any bias by Salon here? Just saying.

So let me understand Salon's position:

It's just fine to fire an Inspector General because his politics is to the right of the individual for whom he "serves at the pleasure of".

It's not fine to fire a columnist because his politics is to the left of the individual for whom "he serves at the pleasure of".

One case is justified, the other is somehow shady.

Any bias by Salon here? Just saying.

Where did you happen to run across Salon's position? Got a link?

Now that he is free, maybe someone will pick him up. MSNBC has a whole EMPTY awful weekend, they could start there.

Would CNN have the nerve to hire him?

Maybe he will run for office?

Do opinionated left wingers ever run for office? And when they win, do that ever get seated? Mr. Franken, we need your voice in Washington.

The Post is part of the ruling class (if you want to use that old-fashioned term) (or the plutocracy) (or the oligarchy) - thus, it will not tolerate anyone speaking truth to power from the left, it tolerates only those who water down any criticism of the powers-that-be with a safe, muddy, snoozy conventional wisdom "bath." I hope Salon or Huffpo, or the like. hires Froomkin post haste.

Twenty years ago, as a spring chicken in New Delhi - in India today,people, generally men, come of age only in their eighties - I had the privilege of documenting the circumstances in which the 28 year old editor Shoebullah Khan of an Urdu newspaper, Imroose, was slaughtered, because of his open defiance of the erstwhile Nizam of Hyderabad. Since then, I have been hounded by the bureaucracy, with the Indian editorial class (with an occasional honourable exception)doing its bit to trivialise and gag me. My crime? I have been outspoken about corruption in Doordarshan - the Government's so-called public service broadcaster. Your esteemed readers are welcome to visit me at Divakar's Sathyagraha especially Why Prabhu Chavla, His Esteemed Publication And India's Editorial Class Have Decayed And Are Dangerous http://sathyagraha.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-prabhu-chavla-his-esteemed.html and Sprite Lee's Sathya especially M J Akbar - India's Marlboro Man http://spriteleesathya.blogspot.com/2009/06/m-j-akbar-indias-marlboro-man.html

I am disgusted that the Washington Post has fired Dan Froomkin.A society that swats good journalists like flies is in bigger trouble than it thinks it is in.

Hi. Can you recommend any informative and trustworthy Indian news blogs or online sites in English at all?

After nearly two decades of walloping from India's decadent elite, I'm not exactly in the most objective frame of mind for references. However...judging entirely by their comments columns, I'd say Outlook's w(aste)p(aper)b(asket) style works for me.Go there, but you might end up with bodylice.

The Times of India, Indian express, etc all supposedly ardent free marketeers reveal their buddhi (character)by imposing limits on words, heavy censorship etc.The Hindu does not deign to host any comments. There are many sites that have sprung up in our dank, tropical climes, but they feel too cultish to me.

Bottom line, in India today, government handouts continue to set the agenda. Confused and apathetic citizens take their chances.

Ironically, the day before yesterday I happened to look at the list of opinion writers at WaPo and realized almost every name there was that of a conservative or neocon that had insulted my intelligence too many times for me to take seriously.

The guest columnists were worse: retreads spewing RNC talking points verbatim. Don't these people ever try to say or think something original? Sound bites from Fox transcribed to paper, grammatical errors and all.

There was little to balance these voices, and now there is nothing. Dan Froomkin is intelligent, articulate, and unafraid; without him WaPo has nothing to offer that Rush Limbaugh doesn't.

This was the paper that had the editorial courage to pull the lid off the slimy mess of the Nixon administration. It is truly sad.

Color me gone, WaPo.

Jersey Paul, you say Salon's position is "It's just fine to fire an Inspector General because his politics is to the right of the individual for whom he 'serves at the pleasure of'.

It's not fine to fire a columnist because his politics is to the left of the individual for whom 'he serves at the pleasure of'."

I am no fan of Gerald Walpin but think the way his firing for "being confused, disorderly and unduly disruptive" was handled looks terrible given the timing of the termination and the investigation of St. Hope Academy. Joe Conason's labeling the Walpin firing as "a phony scandal" and reminding that he served at the pleasure of the president sounds way too much like what the GOP said regarding the firing of the nine U.S. attornies by the Bush administration.

The Washington Post's action in getting rid of Dan Froomkin removes one great source to whom those who want an honest appraisal of the administration not filtered through Faux News or Rush Limbaugh can turn.

When the right continually complains about the leftist bias of the mainstream media, it's a bad joke because it is increasingly more difficult to find any liberal sources such as Froomkin who will call out politicians no matter what their party.

It reminds me of the disappearance of WaPo columnist Dana Milbank from Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" immediately after Milbank had the hubris to write a column calling the Obama campaign presumptuous.

Nobody is above criticism, including President Barack Obama.