Said it before, sayin' it again, nah, gonna shout instead: READ DAN FROOMKIN EVERY DAY.

[WilliamPitt]

Sorry for the noise, I'm not angry or anything, but damn...this man excells at his job, which makes him twice as important and relevant and just really refreshing...because he's becoming a rare breed of cat in that fetid jungle some still call "journalism" with a straight face.

He's uncommon as a professional, and is also pretty much singlehandedly maintaining normal gravity over there on Planet WaPo...where Pincus blew the lid off the OSP and WHIG in 2003, where Froomkin does his thing, where a few stolid sould still write about the real world...and they get the stuff published...and after reading their stuff, you can flip to the editor's column and get your daily dose of CRAZY...cuz the editors haven't read their own reporters' stuff for maybe 2,000 editions or so by now, and every word they write is proof.

Froomkin today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/30/BL2008043001821.html

Better, Froomkin yesterday:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/29/BL2008042901347.html

He spends three pages describing Cheney's belief that no laws apply to him.

I dare ya to check out the Op/Ed page. I don't have the stomach for it today. Let me know what happens. :)

P.S. Those requiring pure waters in which to swim, i.e. if you don't read anyone who isn't for your candidate, rest easy. Froomkin stays away from any of the campaign folderol, but usually goes after McCain as if the presumptive GOP nominee shot his dog and egged his house. ;)

[babylonsister]

1. I would think this is high praise coming from you, Will. Thanks for

the heads-up.

[williesgirl]

2. Absolutely! My daily pleasure. Used to work there and ashamed to admit it now. They were really

something then, but just stenographers for our criminal-in-chief and his rich cabal now. Kay Graham has to be rolling in her grave. Len Downie is the sorriest excuse for an Editor you can have. He's watered down the reporting, allowing all of them to hob-knob with those they cover, yet prides himself in "not voting to stay neutral". Bullshit. rec'd

[pleah]

3. Thanks!

K&R