{"id":3306,"date":"2009-07-07T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2009-07-07T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T01:52:43","slug":"whod-have-thunk-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/07\/whod-have-thunk-it\/","title":{"rendered":"who&#8217;d have thunk it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/07\/huffington-hires-froomkin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Hires Froomkin<\/a><br \/>Daily Dish<\/strong><br \/><strong>Andrew Sullivan <\/strong><br \/>07 Jul 2009 12:50 pm <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Terrific move. He can now criticize Charles Krauthammer all he wants, and not watch his back. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/07\/07\/froomkin\/\">Greenwald<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Froomkin will oversee a staff of five reporters and an Assistant Editor, guide <em>The&nbsp;Huffington Post&#8217;s<\/em><\/div>\n<p> Washington reporting, and write at least two posts per week to be featured on its main page and Politics page.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">Too honest for the WaPo. Glenn reprints <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyhowler.com\/dh062609.html\">Bob Somerby&#8217;s view<\/a><\/strong> of the reason for Froomkin&#8217;s firing:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>Dan Froomkin criticizes the press corps. In the press corps, if you&rsquo;re a liberal, that just isn&rsquo;t done. . . . If there&rsquo;s one thing you&rsquo;ll never see [E.J.] Dionne or [Eugene] Robinson do, it&rsquo;s criticize their cohort&mdash;the coven, the clan. . .&nbsp; But in the mainstream press corps, liberals don&rsquo;t discuss the mainstream press.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s the price of getting those (very good) jobs. It&rsquo;s also the price of holding them.<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, Glenn notes:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>Josh&nbsp;Marshall&#8217;s TalkingPointsMemo &#8211; which began as a one-person blog &#8211;&nbsp; announced a major investment from Netscape founder Marc Andreesen that is allowing it to double its reporting staff.<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Dish continues to grow much more rapidly than I expected, and, as you know, I now have two under-bloggers to keep tabs on everything. I remain a great optimist about the future of journalism; and one reason for that optimism is that some of the bigger brands are dying because they refuse to practice it with the candor and transparency readers now expect.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s a little hard to imagine how quickly the blogging format has grown. We&#8217;ve wondered how the Newspapers were going to make the transition to the Internet. Maybe the answer is that they aren&#8217;t going to. We&#8217;re going to see something really kind of new. And it&#8217;s originators are going to be our old friends, like <strong>FDL<\/strong>, <strong>Huffington<\/strong>, <strong>Andrew Sullivan<\/strong>, <strong>TPM<\/strong>, <strong>Greenwald<\/strong>, <strong>Froomkin<\/strong>. <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Who&#8217;d have thunk it? <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Hires FroomkinDaily DishAndrew Sullivan 07 Jul 2009 12:50 pm Terrific move. He can now criticize Charles Krauthammer all he wants, and not watch his back. Greenwald: Froomkin will oversee a staff of five reporters and an Assistant Editor, guide The&nbsp;Huffington Post&#8217;s Washington reporting, and write at least two posts per week to be featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}