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- danielttt, on 06/19/2009, -23/+65The Washington Post is right to fire this man. The WP recognizes he is getting in the way of the overall agenda obama has for all of us. I'm sure that with a little re-education, Mr. Frookin's perspective can be re-aligned so he can again write appropriate and acceptable thoughts.
- copperhead1288, on 06/19/2009, -5/+35I have no doubt he will be picked up by a publication with equal exposure and much, much better judgment — and fast. Their loss is someone else's win.
- sstidman, on 06/19/2009, -3/+23The Washington Post is a very liberal paper. It's odd to me that this has been twisted into a neocon plot. It's seems more likely that Obama supporters gave him the boot for criticizing Obama.
Can people really not see something so obvious? - mastgrr, on 06/19/2009, -7/+25"The single most transparent and damaging myth in American political discourse is also one of the most unquestioned: The Liberal Media."
- Kryptik1, on 06/19/2009, -4/+18I like how people continue to call the Washington Post some kind of uber-Liberal bastion that does nothing but oppress the poor Republicans.
Ignoring the fact that the Op-Ed page is stacked with Neocons and Republican apologists like Hiatt, Will, Gerson, Krauthammer, Kristol, Broder, "Reasonable Liberal" Cohen, not to mention such bright luminaries on the other sections such as Howie Kurtz and Shlaigh Murray. Oh, and don't forget its countless opening of its pages to such great guest columnists such as Liz Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Marc Thiessen, the four General jackasses who trotted out the same pablum from 1993 about why we couldn't have openly serving gays in the military.
Meanwhile, we have, on the 'liberal' side left...what? Eugene Robinson and EJ Dionne, with no reasonably 'left' guest columnists to speak of. Yeah, real liberal bastion.
Froomkin's booting, despite his success, is just another show of the Post wanting nothing more than boost the conservative bent Hiatt wants to see in the editorializing and general reporting. - NelsonAlgren, on 06/18/2009, -15/+29Dan Frookin was one the the best things the WaPo had. I hope the paper now goes bankrupt. It's only fitting.
- SanDiegoFreeway, on 06/19/2009, -6/+19FTA (yes, I know it's not Greenwald, but it's worth comment):
"UPDATE II: In a post entitled "The WaPo's Best Blogger Is Fired," Andrew Sullivan writes:
A simply astounding move by the paper - getting rid of the one blogger, Dan Froomkin, who kept it real and kept it interesting. Dan's work on torture may be one reason he is now gone. The way in which the WaPo has been coopted by the neocon right, especially in its editorial pages, is getting more and more disturbing. This purge will prompt a real revolt in the blogosphere. And it should."
Of course, it's all a neocon conspiracy. Conservative folks would *never* want to have someone not identifying as conservative criticizing Obama too. They'll stop at nothing to stifle that. - Jensaarai, on 06/19/2009, -1/+14You should. Whether you are left, right, or libertarian, if you think the Democratic Party comes close to representing the American left most of the time, your exposure to opinions has been severely limited.
There's plenty of criticism of the current party and even the Obama administration from the left, but it gets precious little air time. But lazy journalists would rather portray the White House line or a sound bite from Harry Reid as the opinion of that wing, rather than show the situation is a lot more dynamic.
Sure, I guess if you figure the current simplified US VS THEM state of political reporting in our country is good, then I guess you could be indifferent to this move. But anyone who cares about any nuance beyond binary black vs white stories is distressed by this move. - axiomatose, on 06/19/2009, -6/+18dugg for the subtlety of your /s
- thinkb4utype, on 06/19/2009, -3/+12The Washington Post says it's an "Independent Newspaper" in the masthead, /s. Two weeks before an election, the Post always endorses every democratic candidate who runs. They're a bunch of hypocrites.
- MWeather, on 06/19/2009, -2/+10If they keep moving left, pretty soon Europeans are going to call them centrist.
- LenBaird, on 06/19/2009, -2/+10It's interesting to me because it suggests that they are stifling credible criticism of President Obama. It is credible because it comes "from the left" and can't be written off as "neocon hater" or other similar labels.
- thinkb4utype, on 06/19/2009, -2/+9Boss: You got your mind right, Luke?
Luke: Yeah. I got it right. I got it right, boss.
Boss: Suppose you's back-slide on us?
Luke: Oh no I won't. I won't, boss.
Boss: Suppose you's to back-sass?
Luke: No I won't. I won't. I got my mind right.
Boss: You try to run again, we gonna kill ya.
Luke: I won't, I won't, boss. - 0tis, on 06/19/2009, -3/+10I think most people realise that, but that doesn't mean they agree with him.
- Charlotte_Web, on 06/19/2009, -3/+9People know that when they read Krauthammer, they are reading a conservative columnist. WaPo editors run Krauthammer's columns in order to appear that they are balanced.
Liberals are much more likely to be swayed by Froomkin's criticisms of Obama, since he was popular as a fervent opponent of the Bush administration, and now he is writing common sense criticisms of Obama.
Krauthammer represents much less of a threat to the liberal ideologues running WaPo than Froomkin does. - Myonosken, on 06/19/2009, -7/+13Oh shut up. I'm from Europe and its clear there's no single slant, just vocal ***** on both sides.
- ManUnitdFan, on 06/19/2009, -1/+7Froomkin was fired while Krauthammer writes on? How is that just?
- ZenMojo, on 06/19/2009, -1/+6Is anyone surprised? The WaPo caters heavily to the Right but the Right keeps telling it it's not centrist enough. Response? WaPo thinks the Right is right so it teeters further to the Right. Of course, subscriptions go down as it becomes explicitly partisan and it keeps getting the same complaints, so what does it do? The same damn thing.
Of course, you could replace WaPo with the Republican Party and the US economy and get the same response. If you put the same people in charge, you should expect the same results. - Nedd8, on 06/19/2009, -6/+11Shut up and drink the Kool-Aid!
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -4/+9How is this a left slant? The dude was critical of Obama for not representing the left, and he got fired. I'm ***** baffled here. If the media had a left slant, he'd get a raise or something. In fact, there'd be far less praise of Obama in general if the media had a left slant. Sure, they have a love affair with Obama, but that's something completely different - that's a cult of personality thing going on, it has nothing to do with Obama's political views.
- Yogitw, on 06/19/2009, -1/+5I think you're getting confused with the Washington Times.
- CressCrowbits, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4Hmm, seems my firefox doesn't have the 'automatically hide spam comment on Digg' plugin.
- brainboy7777, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4to think that this paper broke the truth about watergate. for shame.
- jsffive, on 06/19/2009, -6/+10Who cares? I stopped reading that rag a long time ago. The final straw was when they helped lie this nation into a war... What does it take for YOU to stop patronizing them?
- govtdoesnotwork, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4I dugg this, and I hardly *ever* agreed with Froomkin. They have the right to fire him, but they also have a less-diverse rag than before...
- TobiasParker, on 06/19/2009, -3/+7"but there we go, what can you do?"
Use the reply button. - Yogitw, on 06/19/2009, -1/+4Chuckie is a regular on Fox
- razor150, on 06/19/2009, -3/+6Yet they keep the neocons and their childish rants against Obama. But I see your point, the Washington Post obviously doesn't want anybody questioning Obama.
- thenorwegian, on 06/19/2009, -5/+8idiots, why are you digging him down? He is being sarcastic
- monvalley, on 06/19/2009, -1/+4Who cares. He is probably better off; it better to get off a sinking ship early rather than wait till it's too late. This newpaper is dead; hurry up and bury it. Does anyone read newspapers anymore or watch "mainstream news"? We are better off with internet news, bloggers and maybe go back to information from shortwave radio.
- skipvt, on 06/19/2009, -0/+3Yes.
- workaround4u, on 06/20/2009, -0/+3Maybe if they change their name to "Pravda West", it'll thrive.
- kbillar, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2And yet you still managed to logically conclude that YojanV was responding to Copperhead1288 comment. Stop being a Digg Nazi.
- whatthefu, on 06/19/2009, -7/+9The fact that you called the Post WaPo makes me unable to even consider your opinion on the matter.
- Gr1nch, on 06/19/2009, -2/+4good band but your apathy is depressing.
print media is dead anyways. - chinaman1212, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2don't know: firefox.
- CressCrowbits, on 06/19/2009, -1/+3RTFA.
Most popular. - CressCrowbits, on 06/19/2009, -3/+5WTF is up with all the spam on this page?
- groundbreaking, on 06/21/2009, -0/+2Many progressives and conservatives are asking: Why would any newspaper fire such an even-handed journalist, especially since he is so popular? Perhaps the Washington Post should answer them.
- inactive, on 06/20/2009, -1/+3We don't really know what happened.
Frookin could have been a whackjob to work with or repeatedly missed deadlines or broke ethics - and the WP wouldn't give that as a real reason for the termination.
In a week or so, the WP's side of the story may come out, and then it would be fair to make a determination as to whether or not Frookin's firing was 'fair.' - SpyCatcher, on 06/19/2009, -7/+8Criticize Obama and get FIRED. People were only have 3.3 more years of Obama!
- danielttt, on 06/20/2009, -1/+2Given your vulgarity and uncanny ability to link syllables into the most obtuse and nonsensicle run on sentences, I can see why you would support obama.
- eliseville, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1So why read this?
- FAHayek, on 06/20/2009, -2/+3How dare he criticize our great, beloved Chairman Maobama!!
- jacqaluyan, on 06/19/2009, -1/+2"Print is dead."
- eliseville, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1Nice analysis. The only reason I read their Op-Ed's was for Froomkin's blogging.
- WasabiBomb, on 06/19/2009, -8/+9And yet we're still far to the right of most other countries. Strange.
- danielttt, on 06/20/2009, -1/+2Uh..toby dude, ..get your dictionary out and look up sarcasm. You'll find it somewhere between retard and stupid.
- Myonosken, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1I'm from a country which is, for the most part, successful at maintaining a largely neutral view point in the media. I suppose that makes me less credible than some gimp from a country where ever single news outlet is biased to *****. /s
- eliseville, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1So then, who will pay journalists a living wage to do our investigative journalism that can't be done by any ol' guy on the street? Can we stay informed without them?
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