Dan Froomkin
Summary
Dan Froomkin is the Senior Washington Correspondent for the Huffington Post. His work is now collected here. He previously wrote a column for the online version of The Washington Post called White House Watch. On June 18, 2009 it was reported that his blog would cease to exist and his employment at The Washington Post was terminated. In July, 2009, he was hired by the Huffington Post.Froomkin was raised in Washington, D.C. In 1997 he joined washingtonpost.com as a senior producer for politics. From 2001 to 2003, he was editor of washingtonpost.com. His column launched on January 12, 2004. In a career in journalism spanning over 20 years, he has also worked at The Winston-Salem Journal, The Miami Herald, and The Orange County Register.
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Why newspapers need to lose the ‘view from nowhere’
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett may be buying newspapers — a move that is probably as much about cash flow and real estate as it is a long-term investment thesis — but he can’t possibly buy them all, and that leaves the rest of the industry struggling to try and confront the issues that are causing their decline.
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Surely President Obama Is Joking About This Whole 'Let's Have Larry Summers Run The World Bank' Thing!
The hot scoop of the day, where emeritus members of the Committee To Save The World are concerned, is that President Barack Obama is mulling naming former White House economic advisor Larry Summers to head the World Bank, replacing outgoing Robert Zoellick, whose term will end midway through the year.
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Dan Froomkin: Politifact's Road To Salvation
Yesterday, I sent an email to Politifact editor Bill Adair, expressing my horror over his group's decision to designate "Republicans voted to kill Medicare" as the "lie of the year. " (See, for an exegesis of that misbegotten choice, Steve Benen, Paul Krugman, Jamison Foser, Charles Pierce, Jason Linkins, et. al.
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Michele Simon: Congress to Kids: Drop Dead
Last month, when Congress declared pizza a vegetable, it was hard to believe things could get much worse. But never underestimate politicians' ability to put corporate interests ahead of children's health. In the massive budget bill just passed, Congress stuck in language to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a cost/benefit analysis before finalizing a report that would provide the food industry with science-based nutrition guidelines for marketing to children.
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Buddy Roemer Throws In His Lot With Americans Elect -- Which Is A Huge Mistake
Yesterday, while helping the media to divine the truth as to whether or not Jon Huntsman intends to mount an independent run for the presidency (he does not), I noted that outsider candidate Buddy Roemer -- who's been shut out of the GOP debates and thus the discussion -- was flirting with using Americans Elect as his path to getting on the ballot.
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When Candidates Lie, What's A Political Reporter To Do?
Political reporters are notoriously unwilling to call even the most outrageous, intentionally deceptive untruths what they are: lies.
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Bush Jokes About His Own Literacy
Former President George W. Bush joked about his literary abilities in a speech at the Chamber of Commerce in Wichita, Kans. on Thursday.
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Allen West Gets It Twisted On Economic Mobility In America
I see that Representative Allen West (R-Fla. ) has taken exception to President Barack Obama in an email to supporters, saying that the president "does not fathom" the concept of economic mobility. Here's how West puts it:.
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Dan Froomkin: Media Squawked When It Should Have Jumped on Oil Market Speculation Coverage
Faced with some hot data on oil speculation, the media squawked when it should have jumped.
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After Trying Two Or Three Things, Washington Has 'Run Out Of Wayss' To Fix The Economy
So, I'm reading this latest piece by Neil Irwin in the Washington Post, titled "Manufacturing slowdown the latest sign the recovery is faltering," and I'm instantly grabbed by the opening line:.
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