DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Dan Froomkin wrote his last column for the Washington Post -- and once again pointed out the lies that so many reporters ignored

  • Rob Mule · 6 months ago
    I, too, will miss the euphoniously named Froomkin...And the Post a mere shadow of itself once under mad momma Kate.
    I fear the sin packed reign of the son king doesn't stand as singularly apart as many might want us to imagine and so I look forward to future Froomkin bylines...
  • Zorba · 6 months ago
    Yes, and I'm sure that Katharine Graham is rolling over in her grave at what the Post has become. I'll miss Dan, and intend to follow his work, wherever he winds up.
  • SkippyFlipjack · 6 months ago
    I was thinking, his dismissal might be an example of old media acting like old media. Their editorial staff consists of a bunch of conservatives and a couple of liberals. Let's say they need to cut costs but want to stay balanced (ha), so they should probably cut a conservative. But while the Krauthammers on staff are making more money for their day or two a week than Froomkin for his daily column, Froomkin's column appeared only on the website, while the Krauthammers appear in good old finger-dirtying print. I imagine that to them, web-only editorialists are expendable because they're essentially bloggers, not real *writers*.
  • HelenRainier · 6 months ago
    There's only one good thing left at the WaPo now and that would be Eugene Robinson.
  • leliorisen · 6 months ago
    What made Dan Froomkin my one, must-read at the Post website, was his amazing, comprehensive sourcing. He used a myriad of source material and provided a vast amount of links so that his readers could be as well-informed as possible. He covered stories that others were ignoring and he covered them in-depth.

    That he is out at WaPo is an utter disgrace and a deep stain on their reputation. There is nothing on their site that duplicates the service he offered.

    Please keep us posted as to his future whereabouts.
  • Butch1 · 6 months ago
    Good luck and best wishes, Dan. It's the Post's loss, not yours.
  • cowboyneok · 6 months ago
    WaPo sucks. Did I say WaPo SUCKS? I think I might just have said WAPO SUCKS!!! Just in case some aren't clear what I just said:

    THE WASHINGTON POST SUCKS ! ! ! !

    Dan Froomkin was, indeed, an old school investigative journalist of the new and better internet medium. I'm with others saying its the Washington Post's loss, and someone else's GAIN!
  • postdamnit · 6 months ago
    And then there are Sanford's recent lies. Now he says that he will carry out his term as Governor and how that will be a "teaching lesson" for his kids. Say what?

    Another scumbag adulterer polictician. Is he going to teach his kids how to have sexual relationships outside the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. Do as I say not as I do. This seems to be the mantra of most pols. Lately more so of the GOP scum.
  • Judas Peckerwood · 6 months ago
    Re WaPo: Does anybody actually read that rag anymore? Personally, I can't wait until they go under. And the can take the NYT and the rest of the "pillars" of the print journalism establishment along with them. Good riddance to bad rubbish, says I.
  • SkippyFlipjack · 6 months ago
    Yeah, it will be great when we get all our news from bloggers and a blizzard of tweets. :|
  • Judas Peckerwood · 6 months ago
    Couldn't be any worse than the corporatist tripe that the MSM serves up.
  • SkippyFlipjack · 6 months ago
    LOL

    look at it this way.. the polarization that's gone on in this country over the past twenty years will be nothing compared to what happens when people get their news exclusively from like-minded blog editors who selectively cull information from crowdsourced reporting, without the benefit of editors or fact-checkers. it'll be Immediate! it'll be Now! it'll be Democratic! and it will so chaotic and distorted that we'll come to see the defunct Fox News as a bastion of evenhandedness.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 6 months ago
    It would go under if it weren't were for the Wa Po's education/testing services.
  • rohannig · 6 months ago
    I read your column regularly and was greatly uplifted when I was trying to determine if it was just me that smelled the rats in the DC line of bullshit that was being marketed as "gospel".
    I could never figure how 'so few" could snowball "so many" without someone seeing through the fascade. Look forward to reading your articles in the future whereever you are.
  • HelenRainier · 6 months ago
    Joe,

    When you or John hear where Froomkin lands, will you please let us know? Hopefully, he'll end up someplace on the web at one of the many fine sites there are.
  • cole3244 · 6 months ago
    wash used to have one paper and one rag, now it has two rags and no paper, soon the internet will put both of these impostors of the fourth estate out of their misery.