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That was the short email to family, both here and abroad. Dan Froomkin is gone. Must have been more White House Watching than Mr. Hiatt could stand. And Dan was not letting go of some topics from the past.
I'm also deputy editor of NiemanWatchdog.org, a Web site devoted to encouraging watchdog and accountability journalism from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
The SCOTUS employee brother-in-law was the one who suggested we make Dan a regular read online. With former Washington Post paper boys in the extended family, we were loyal, even as the price of getting the print edition out here in the Eastern Panhandle kept going up and up. The media market is fractured for West Virginia as we here know.
Michael Gerson. Charles Krauthammer. George Will. Robert Kagan. Robert Samuelson. Jim Hoagland. Richard Cohen. David Broder. Howie Kurtz. Ramesh Ponnuru. Sally Quinn. Kathleen Parker. And now they employ William Kristol. I guess Washington was just not big enough to keep a critic of Obama from the left.Katie, bar the door.
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