Comments on: They Fired Froomkin for THIS?!?

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:56:22 +0000

Oh good, that’s a relief. Sorry about that.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:55:07 +0000

Thanks. Fixed.

By: dday

dday — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:23:49 +0000

Correction appreciated.

By the way, I never mind being mistaken for Digby.

By: oldtree

oldtree — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:54:46 +0000

Which one is it, Percy Dovetonsils or the Empty Suit, Inc.?

By: orionATL

orionATL — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:24:26 +0000

sparkles @29

yeah, my long time favorite newspaper, too.

but then the darkness fell.

bob somerby (the daily howler), the diagones of american political journalism,

once wrote something along the lines of:

dana milbank exists only to prove that ann kornblut isn’t the dumbest reporter on earth.

“dumb” is the shibboleth of the “new” washington post.

what a loss.

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:13:57 +0000

Why does K.O. have half his guests on? At least half of them are morons. K.O. is a moron a large part of the time.

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:12:08 +0000

Fucking pathetic. I could barely watch half of it. It is sad for me to watch the WaPo fall so far into the shithole. I grew up with the Post as my hometown paper and for so many years it was the gold standard.

In my fantasy it would be taken over by actual journalists, and management who believes in actual journalism. But since that won’t happen, may they (except for Dana Priest) be beaten to death by enraged apes and their carcasses gnawed on by furry woodland creatures, while Froomkin and the rest of us watch.

By: mediaskeptic

mediaskeptic — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:08:54 +0000

Froomkin had to go. The WaPo needed his salary to fund their new variety show project.

By: orionATL

orionATL — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:57:18 +0000

i know i’m not supposed to talk this way in public

but

celizza has always looked kind of stupid to me.

is he? i don’t know, but if you look at this face, his lights appear to be on dim.

By: reader

reader — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:37:31 +0000

McCain and the Wapo have NO cred left.

The word that popped out of that presser for me was ”responsibility,” too. Obama has a responsibility NOT to go off half- or full-cocked. McCain and Graham can say whatever the fuck they want: which is how McCain got off the bomb-bomb-bomb thing in the first place. Thank gods and goddesses their nonsense is practically irrelevant.

It would be nice if the fourth estate took their responsibilities a little more seriously.

And, again, Froomkin will wind up somewhere far better: I can’t wait to see it!