Category Archives: Dan Froomkin

Max Fitzgerald Froomkin

Posted on December 27, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

My boys have their first male cousin: Max Fitzgerald Froomkin. Born last night, the large economy size.

Both Dan and Paige are doing well.

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Dan Froomkin Watch

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Dana Milbank, one of the Post’s very best reporters, was pretty funny yesterday in his online chat. He started out with this comment,

Dana Milbank: Good morning. Many of you out there in what my colleague John F. Harris affectionately dubs “the crankosphere” are evidently of the impression that the Washington Post political staff is distracted by internal battles with washingtonpost.com. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have focused this week on the Iraqi elections, in which the Froomkin turnout was much higher than expected. We have closely monitored the White House’s about face on the Froomkin torture amendment. And today, I write from the Senate press gallery, where Froomkins are attempting to filibuster the Patriot Act.

With that, I will be happy to take your Froomkins.

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Brad DeLong Interviews John Harris

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Brad DeLong Interviews John Harris. “It didn’t go very well,” he writes….

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The Blogs Are Cooking With Dan

Posted on December 13, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Got lots to do, and anyway I don’t want to say anything more about Dan’s current 15 minutes, lest someone think (wrongly, I assure you) that I’m acting as his mouthpiece. But I’m reading it all with great interest and not a little glee.

So here’s some of the more recent choice commentary elsewhere on the ‘new Post’ / ‘old Post’ kerfuffle.

Don’t miss: Jeff Jarvis, Splitting newsrooms and hairs and the twofer (content & linkfest) in Jay Rosen, Press Think John Harris and Jim Brady Get Into It About “White House Briefing.” Dan Froomkin Replies. Almost all the links are really good.

Bonus tracks: Brad DeLong, The Future of the Washington Post and Marty Kaplan, Journalism’s Slo-Mo Suicide.

And, despite the great attraction of the readers’ suggestion that Dan’s column be re-named “Dan Froomkin’s ‘Cooking with Walnuts’,” it seems that White House Briefing is here to stay.

Update: Brad DeLong comes back for a second strafing run.

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Dan Froomkin Briefing

Posted on December 12, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

The Washington Post’s new ombudsperson took a gentle swipe at my brother on Sunday, suggesting that the name on his column “White House Briefing” was somehow misleading or confusing.

Dan wrote a brief reply. Then the readers chimed in: and they love him!. Advantage, Froomkin!

Update: Wow. There’s even more pro-Dan-Froomkin outpourings after Post National Politics Editor John Harris replies.

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Important News at WashingtonPost.Com

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Big news at White House Talk, in which my brother writes:

I’ve been wrestling with how to break this to my regular readers, but … my wife and I are expecting our first child within the next several weeks, and I will be taking a few weeks off when that happens.

(And yes, I had heard of this before I read it online.)

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