froomkin gets fired...Well, we didn't think the post really planned on actually reporting facts about anything anyway

11:39 AM me: Have you seen this? http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/19/washpost/index.html

11:41 AM Manny: yes

me: I figured

Manny: I am aware of the Froomkin firing

me: another one bites the dust

11:42 AM did you read greenwald's comentary?

Manny: yeah, I have him on RSS

11:43 AM me: "Froomkin was one of the very few journalists working for an establishment outlet who understood and practiced the function of journalism...That's why he was an aberration -- and, to them, an unpleasant one."

Manny: yup

11:44 AM me: word

Manny: Will Bunch wrote about it too

11:45 AM Don't you know you don't need froomkin? You have the excellent reporters at the Times and the Post

11:46 AM me: excellent bombasts

11:47 AM Manny: John Harris, for example

that guy is really, really, really in touch with what David Broder and Cokie Roberts will say

11:48 AM me: ha

perfect

I always need someone to take of new what the news-thinker-inventors think

11:49 AM Manny: FYI, mickleson just eagled 15 to tie for the lead

11:50 AM me: I'm watching