Bring Me the Blog of Dan Froomkin

Look, I know this is comic book silly, but no sillier than the whole episode. Now that we know that the Washington Post was willing to sell its good name for a crappy 25k, is there any chance we have insight into the real reason behind the (otherwise bafflingly stupid) Dan Froomkin firing? I mean, could it be that some ill-wisher said he'd drop a quarter of a big one in the till if Dan would just go? And the publisher said yessiree bop? Might be fun to see the rest of the price list here. How much are they asking for Krauthammer?

Meanwhile, somebody needs to tell Katharine Weymouth that there's a difference between doing it for a few friends and doing it for money.

Froomkin's Done

Dan Froomkin ended his 12-year (sic) stay at the Washingon Post today with a helpful review of the 5 1/2 years since he began his online column--spotlighting how much the policy of the last administration was one of "kicking the can down the road"--putting off the painful or the embarrassing or the intractable, so as to make them all a problem for another (= this) day. Froomkin says he will be announcing his plans soon.

Whither Froomkin?

I haven't anything interesting to add to the general cluck-clucking about the Washington Post's dumping of Dan Froomkin (for all you need to know, read Glenn Greenwald or Paul Krugman). But the next question would be: what happens next? Froomkin is certainly a marketable property and, considering that the Post didn't pay him all that much anyway, compensation shouldn't be a barrier.

There are any number of plausible answers to this question. For myself, I'll take a flutter on Josh Marshall, who could readily deploy Froomkin in his ongoing campaign to supplant the New York Times.