The Washington Posthole 3
It cut Dan Froomkin loose.
Supposedly, his column didn’t “work” any more.
Mr. Froomkin just had a consistent history of getting things right.
My three or four regular readers know that I have quoted him frequently and that his analyses just as frequently turned out to be spot on.
Apparently, being spot on doesn’t fit with the Post’s editorial policy these days.
All they have left in their stable of regular writers who’s worth a damn is Gene Weingarten.
It’s one thing to watch a newspaper die. It’s quite another to watch one kill itself.
June 19, 2009 at 9:08 pm
The Washington Post quickly is becoming just another daily rag.
June 23, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Weingarten took the buyout – big big bummer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/06/11/DI2009061101717.html
June 24, 2009 at 5:25 am
Oh, no. Well, it’s time to scrub them from my bookmarks.
Contrary to popular myth, the Post has never been a liberal paper editorially. I have read it regularly for years, starting in the Watergate era (that was just a coincidence of timing–I was 18 in 1968 and going to college, where we could get dorm-room delivery of the paper, even though Williamsburg, Va., was not part of the regular delivery area).
Editorially, it has always been center to slightly right. It’s strength was its reporting. As the “center” has moved right, at least as far as Washington thermos bottle is concerned (and the rest of the country doesn’t matter, now, does it?), the Post has followed.