Even better for the Huffington Post. I had guessed that he'd be online. I figured The Huffington Post would be in the bidder's circle ... to be honest I kind of hoped he would land somewhere else. Like, maybe, even the NYT; a great big megaphone and a more diverse audience. C'est la vie.

I hope the "fit" turns out to be a good one for Dan. I bailed on HuffPo a good while back. Personally, I found it cheesy. Time to dig up my old user name and password, I suppose. If they still have a "favorites" notification, that will come in handy. If not, thank the cosmos for bookmarks. I am willing to concede that Dan Froomkin could claim my eyeballs from the opinion pages of the WSJ. He could probably even get me from NRO.

I'm glad he has a staff. I envy those lucky people who will get to work with him. What an opportunity to hone the craft of journalism. Seriously.

Best wishes to he and Arianna.

Fair point about the premature story of the media's death, Glenn. That which the WaPo practices can't die quickly enough. Long live the web.

I thought their "live blogging" coverage of the Iranian election crisis was irresponsible, and I stopped visiting the site. I was turned off by stupid and misleading headlines such as "Ahmadinejad Leaves Iran!" and "Where is Ahmadinejad?" Such breathless "reporting" painted a wishfully irresponsible picture of what was going on.

I figured Froomkin would wind up someplace like Huffington Post. I've never been a regular reader of that blog although I often follow links to to it, but Froomkin will change this. My guess is that he will increase the range and number of regular readers. It's just too bad he won't have a column everyday.

Somersby is slightly off base. Robinson has criticized the WaPo editorial page group (of which he is part). Dionne is another matter. He very quickly became a beltway creature once he started subbing for Mark Shields on the PBS nNews. You could see him becoming neutered over the course of just a few appearences. His columns were particularly awful in this election cycle as he had succummed to a nasty mancrush on John McCain, along with his fellow pundits. Dionne seems well on his way to becoming Richard Cohen.

I would say that within the last month the Huffington Post has started to feature many more articles that are critical of Obama especially regarding preventive detention, LGBT issues, and healthcare reform.

Unfortunately, many of the commentators on the site still see Obama as a Godsend so the well-informed comments from many of the posters here would be much appreciated on the Huffington Post. By so doing, we can bring a little bit of Greenwald over to the Huffington Post and get a nice double dose of truth with the addition of Froomkin.

Great article Glenn! Truly enlightening and uplifting! Congratulations to Dan Froomkin. I hope this move will inspire him to continue to pull no punches and further underscores that importance and power of the work he does.

It is funny how establishment news media track has in many ways paralleled the decline of the establishment music industry. I was just lamenting to a friend of mine the other day how the slumping music sales (they’ve truly fallen off of a cliff) over the last several years is more attributable to the quality of the product being offered as opposed to the technology i.e. file sharing and piracy being solely responsible for the decline. The reason that the establishment music industry has not been able to find a model in the digital file sharing age to effectively support the profitable sale of music is because they are not delivering the quality product that will in turn support that platform. Not the other way around. Notice that several of Michael Jackson’s catalog albums are easily outselling the top current new releases. This is unprecedented. Although nostalgia and sentimentality definitely plays a key role, it evinces that it certainly helps to have a quality to product to be hocking.

As you’ve deftly elucidated again Glenn establishment news media is not withering on the vine because of new media and technology and its inability to find a platform that would support the profitable distribution of its product but because of its failure to produce quality product/journalism that would support that platform.

of HuffPo either, and for the same reasons listed by others (way too heavy on "entertainment" stuff [which--given what's presented--is a contradiction in terms]), but I will go to the site to read Froomkin. I also be interested in seeing how he shapes other reporters' work out of D.C.

Also, I may have missed it, but I didn't see in the links I clicked on, such as the City Desk piece by Wemple, a breakout of numbers for other columnists. If the justification for firing Froomkin is a drop in readership, then let's see the numbers for Krauthammer, Kristol and Broder.

Seems only fair.

Unfortunately, as Glenn has noted, the qualifier in all of this is the reader. There seems to be plenty of anecdotal evidence that sites or publications of one particular bent are satisfactory to their audience - feeding them just what they want to hear.

Still, open-mindedness is not an all-or-nothing proposition. It exists in a continuum. It has degrees. Many of the sites to which you refer indeed do nothing more than preach to their own closed-minded choir, and any contradiction of their preciously guarded crotchets is perceived as an assault that must be repelled. But some readerships have the potential to be persuaded by reason. If principles they recognize veer toward conclusions they don't, some audiences are willing to take a little detoured ride -- and see where it leads.

I'm too lazy to search -- but what does the conservative press think of Froomkin & HuffPo? Anybody know?

It would appear that the "free market" is speaking. You would think that they would like that.