The Washington Post, now with even less liberal. Here’s a thought, maybe the Post’s loss can be the New York Times’ gain. If not, the Philly Inquirer could use someone a bit better than Rick Santorum and John Yoo.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Screw the traditional media. The New York Times is not far behind the Washington Post and it’s not worth changing the system from the inside, as it where. Leave them for dead. Froomkin should unleash himself from the shackle of these fake journalists and rotten and corruptec institutions. I would literally trust an usigned twitter post more than I would trust the WaPo. Froomkin shouldn’t lend his good name to these rotten institutions.
They hate the truth and they hate real reporting. Complete rags and completely rotten. There is no redeeming value in the WaPo. Just look at the roster of liars the paper supports! Krauthamer? C’mon. No wonder I don’t even read the WaPo anymore–even when I’m in D.C. I would rather read the Onion–that’s truthier.
meh, i think that’s a little over the top SFHawkguy.
the WaPo op-ed page is indeed a piece of shit, but the news department has done some good work.
Like what? I am indeed conflating the op-ed page with the rest of the paper but I guess I can’t handle the smell of the rot from the back of the paper to even hold the other parts of the paper in my hand.
I’m sure there are good reporters there as there are at the Times and the other A list traditional media places but it’s the editorial direction that is so lacking and has infested not only the op-ed pages but the way the hard news is edited.
I am simply better informed by going to other online sources first. When an editor, like you or Booman, links to a good WaPo article, bring it on. Otherwise I would never go there to be informed.
In fact, the only reason I independently went to WaPo the last few years was to read Froomkin. Except maybe the few times I told myself, “hmm, I wonder how the traditional media is reporting this” and then would go to WaPo and NYTimes and usually would be very disappointed with the reporting.
yeah, but I’m wrong about everything.
WRONG again Booman! You are indeed occasionally right on the merits. But more importantly you have a good editorial sense and I trust you to sniff out the good stories much better than WaPo. You’re a good writer. And you’re much more observant about the politics of issues and don’t have to play this silly game of trying to be fair and balanced and basically kiss the ass of the Washington establishment. That means you bring the TRUTH much better than WaPo.
It’s all relative of course. But at least you’re not actively trying to suppress the truth.
good to know that I am occasionally right about something.
I should rephrase that: you are often correct on the merits.
And you’re right enough times to really piss me off when you’re not.
as much as i agree with you on so many topics, when you write:
…I have to say you’re wrong. One of the reasons the o-ed page at the post is so frwquently out of step with the hard news is that the two departments are entirely separate.
and yes there are some real shitty reporters at both papers. but it’s simply not true that the op-ed pages have “infested” the news department.
OTOH< i agree that I get most of my news online. My first visits these days are blogs: newspapers don’t are second and third tier for me these days.
they seem to be the only American newspaper interested in making money.
alternatively maybe one of the Japanese English language publications will pick them up. The Japanese have a history of recognizing quality that Americans so casually toss away.
Greenwald’s on it.
Politico should offer him a spot. Their business model revolves around others linking to them. Froomkin’s one of the most linked-to columnists around and he’s quite generous linking to others. He’d be a good fit there and probably get more TV appearances and such as well.
…or he becomes the Alan Colmes of the Obama era.
I hope huffpost hires him. They have been looking for an investigative reporter.