About Dan Froomkin and the WashPost

Karma?

This news was very disappointing. It was one place in the "national" medium of news that I could go and see someone intelligently skewer both the Democrats and Republicans for their transgressions (other than Rachel Maddow). Except in blogs (that get labeled partisan no matter how intelligently they are written or back up their arguments with facts and context), there is a very limited outlet in MSM that provides insightful analysis.

Sure, there are a couple articles every now and again that do some in depth reporting -- but it ends there. None of the reporters on staff take the ball and run with it exposing even more. That has been left up to people like Glenn Greenwald, Marcy Wheeler, Talking Points Memo, Firedoglake and Digby's Hullabaloo -- at least those are my favorites.

The Health Care debate is a prime example. As MMFA often reports, the only insightful information on that debate -- is the horse race! Not facts of how past inaction got us to this point a over 40MM Americans uninsured and premiums prohibitively expensive, not facts on the costs of inaction, nor the cost of the CEO's of the health care industry that raked in over 14.9 billion (that's billion with a b) in 5 years (thanks Digby), nor the monopoly that most insurers have in different regions, nor that the majority of doctors and American support universal health care, nor the fact that the government could provide the competition needed to break those monopolies in the various regions, and worse, the fact that Daschle can spout his opinion without ABC News linking him to the millions of dollars he made (makes) lobbying for the insurance and health industry.

It is corruption on a grand scale and now people like Froomkin - - no matter how small his voice, are slowly and surely being silenced by the corporate media. It is a sad state of affairs.