Calderon over at Politico has the story. Here’s Froomkin’s response:
“I was told that it had been determined that my White House Watch blog wasn’t ‘working’ anymore,” said Froomkin. “Personally, I thought it was still working very well, and based on reader feedback, a lot of readers thought so, too. I also felt White House Watch was a great fit with The Washington Post brand, and what its readers reasonably expect from the Post online. As I’ve written elsewhere, (http://www.niemanlab.org/category/themes/danfroomkin) I think that the future success of our business depends on journalists enthusiastically pursuing accountability and calling it like they see it. That’s what I tried to do every day. Now I guess I’ll have to try to do it someplace else.”
Moral of this story? Doesn’t pay to push too hard on torture at the Washington Post. …and watch out when it comes to wingnuts. Hiatt doesn’t like that either, so tip toe gently around them. One of Froomkin’s latest and greatest. Krauthammer never knew what hit him. With Froomkin gone, now he can just settle back and blow.
Froomkin’s very recent “consolation prize for Gays” proved that among the media, Obama wasn’t all that. “White House Watch” meant something. No sacred cows there.
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