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18 Jun 2009 04:54 pm
The Torture-Mongers vs Froomkin
The WaPo's statement drips with condescension:
Sometimes features must be eliminated, and this time it was the blog that Dan Froomkin freelanced for washingtonpost.com.
My italics. But Hiatt will publish op-eds peddling dishonest partial numbers to buttress Ahmadinejad, because that's what the neocons wanted. On Monday, at least. Froomkin has been a hero in exposing the torture regime of Bush and Cheney. He has also criticized Obama as this blog has done as well. Benen:
Far-right complaints notwithstanding, Froomkin has spent months
scrutinizing the Obama White House, cutting the Democratic president no
slack at all. Just over the past couple of days, Froomkin offered
critical takes on the president's
proposed regulations of the financial industry,
follow-through on gay rights, and
foot-dragging on Bush-era torture revelations.
Froomkin was one of the media's most important critics of the Bush
White House, and conservative bashing notwithstanding, was poised to be
just as valuable holding the Obama White House accountable for its
decisions.
Maybe the quality of his free-lancing was showing up the hackneyed AIPAC boilerplate they publish every day on their op-ed page. Greenwald asks, understandably:
At a time when newspapers are relying more and more on online traffic, the
Post just fired the person who, in 2007, wrote 2 out of the
top 10 most-trafficked columns. In publishing that data, Media Bistro used this headline: "The Post's Most Popular Opinions (
Read: Froomkin)." Isn't that an odd person to choose to get rid of?
And then the shoe drops:
Froomkin just recently had a somewhat acrimonious exchange with the oh-so-oppressed Krauthammer over torture, after
Froomkin criticized Krauthammer's explicit endorsement of torture and
Krauthammer responded by calling Froomkin's criticisms "stupid." And now -- weeks later -- Froomkin is fired by the
Post while the persecuted Krauthammer, comparing himself to endangered journalists in Venezuela, remains at the
Post, along with countless others there who think and write just like he does:
i.e., standard neoconservative pablum.
Exposing the torture-monger Krauthammer would almost certainly have enraged Hiatt. They look after their own the neocons.
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