because I really want to vent and don't want to give the WaPo any more hits than the one comment I left Froomkin. He really was their best columnist.

Thinking though my blinding anger at the WaPo, I can understand that Froomkin's hits were probably down, after all with Bush he was so often a lone voice of simple fact-checking in a wilderness of stenography. But even if that's true the WaPo had an incredible brand in Froomkin, and an incredible body of work built up behind it. To simply dump White House Watch is flatly unreasonable. They didn't even make any attempt to continue the relationship or bump up his column. Why not put out the word he needs hits, broaden his focus beyond the White House?

Sure hope this costs them traffic. And I hope Dan lands somewhere excellent. I know wherever it is I'll make a point of going daily, as I used to during the Bush years.

during the year after the Nazis took over and "coordinated" the German press. (Source Presse und Funk im Dritten Reich.)

Maybe they figured the fewer people they have on their site who are actually right about stuff, the better all the rest of the losers will look?

is WaPoo.

Sui generis I know...read more at my blog...

http://hyphenatedrepublic.wordpress.com/

and at sig

I hope the bosses are reading the blogs and comments.

I won't read the Washington Post until Froomkin's column is back.

I hope the bosses are reading the blogs and comments.

I won't read the Washington Post until Froomkin's column is back.

In fact, it was the first newspaper column I signed up to comment

on when, as a senior citizen, I became an internet "dogpaddler".

Terrible judgment. The old-line media is increasingly irrelevant every day. And they wonder why people leave them when given a choice. Froomkin was perhaps the best journalist at the Post. The Post is the loser, not him.

I'm a wheelchair user, and the self-pity comment is unnecessary.

Stick to criticism of Krauthammer's views.

Congratulations! Yes! Advertise your blog here, often, as much as possible!

(written to piss heru-ur off, and for no other reason).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blog%20whoring

Yes, I certainly wouldn't want to do anything that would lead people to read my blog!

Having visited Dan’s blog earlier today I didn’t make the connection when I saw rawstory’s link: “Washington Post reportedly fires liberal blogger”. What a shock when I found out what that meant.

As has been stated elsewhere: he’s a large part of what kept many of us sane during the Bush years. He was a must read then and he is today.

Hackery, delusion and shamelessness have won the day at The Washington Post.

This is how the MSM corrects the appalling job they’ve been doing. What a waste of trees and bandwidth.

Wonderful.

1. WaPo site increasingly marginalized.

2. Froomkin migrates to a site where his brand of journalism is respected.

3. Because of 2), DF can tell us what he really thinks of his old colleagues and his alma mater.

4. Another stake in the heart of the "Liberal Media" myth.

Call Froomkin. Call him now.

Not "working out"? Jesus, that's the line my girlfriend used when she dumped me in High School, after she landed one of the jocks.

this is where the announcement is and where you can comment on froomkins firing

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ombudsman-blog/

Well, like other posters, I'm now done with the Washington Times....er Washington Post.

Increasingly and unfortunately it's the same difference.

Good thing you responded to me, otherwise no one would be able to see Glenn "Glennsorship" Greenwald in action.

He pulled my post, guess it was "too right" for him....

(Look for this post, as well as yours to be removed soon, so he can cover his tracks)

Glenn, are you a spook?

Is the WaPo now owned by the Reverend Moon or Rupert Murdoch? It's hard to remember these days.

"One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong..."

Like DeanOR, I each day was amazed to see Froomkin still writing there, or at any newspaper, and on some level I was kind of embarrassed for him. He was the furrier at the PETA convention.

It's nice to know that as readers continue to vote with their feet, such destructive, insulting simulacra of "journalism" like the WaPoo accelerate the process in such a dismally predictable way.

The imminent demise of the Post and its even shabbier imitators is something I no longer fear, and layoffs for everyone currently in the op/ed side of the print media would, in many ways, be a boon to Democracy, rather than the opposite.

Newspapers have forgotten that their only value lies in their reputation, and that's gone, in most cases. In the long run, especially judging by the comments here and elsewhwere, I think Froomkin's firing is a good thing. It's a bucket of water on the wicked witch of the WaPoo.

Ha ha, Jim!

The thought of that hideous Krauthammer gloating over his behind-the-scenes manipulations is just too much to take. Blech.

Well here's your chance. Finally a situation where instead of just complaining on Glenn's comment section you can actually do something.

You can short the stock. It seems clear based on many of the comments that management is certifiably bonkers and that this is surely the beginning of the end of the newspaper. So pony up and short the stock and you can watch with satisfaction and vindication as the stock plummets meanwhile making more money than you've ever imagined. Then with the all that money you have amassed you can buy the paper fire everyone you don't like and reinstall Froomkin as Editor in Chief.

Ain't capitalism grand!!!!!

He pulled my post, guess it was "too right" for him....

No - it was idiotic and libelous. If you want to accuse someone of trafficking in child porn just on a whim, go to Free Republic.