Froomkin vs. Ezra Klein

or why Froomkin had to go, or how to advance your career in the M$M.

Klein was hired at the WaPo whereas Froomkin was fired.

From today's Daily Howler

"For starters: We of course have no way of knowing why the Post has dumped Dan Froomkin. Let’s repeat that: We simply don’t know.

But if we were going to write a novel, as Rosen did—if we wanted to pretend that we knew—our novel would look like this:

Dan Froomkin criticizes the press corps. In the press corps, if you’re a liberal, that just isn’t done.

Duh. We’ve explained this bone-simple point for years. If there’s one thing you’ll never see Dionne or Robinson do, it’s criticize their cohort—the coven, the clan. Dionne established this point quite brilliantly all through Campaign 2000. Of course he knew that his cohort was talking all manner of bullsh*t about Gore. (On one or two very tiny occasions, he even tinily said so.) But in the mainstream press corps, liberals don’t discuss the mainstream press. That’s the price of getting those (very good) jobs. It’s also the price of holding them."

http://www.dailyhowler.com/index.shtml

It seems to be off limits to discuss the way the M$M trashes major Democrats. At least very few otherwise liberal writers will discuss it. Even Krugman blames the Limbaughs and Fox News when it was WaPo, the NYT, and the Boston Globe who were major players in the 'war on Gore'.

It's bad for your career to talk about such things.

Seems to me that Froomkin should get a job at Media Matters, although that may not pay as well as the WaPo or have as large an audience.