Katharine Weymouth became publisher of The Washington Post and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media, a new unit that includes The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com

For those who might be confused by the last name, “Katerine Weymouth” is Katherine Graham’s daughter, sister to the numbskull Donald Graham. She and her lack of talent have also perched at Newsweek — a publication owned by WaPoo.

And yes, Buffett still owns a hunk of WaPoo stock. He generally maintains a “buy it; let management run it” style of investment. I’d sure hope this fiasco would prompt him to dump a bunch — if not all — of the stock. He has done that before, but it takes an atom bomb to get him to do so.

Partly laziness on my part, not bothering to track it down, but pretty telling on WaPo’s part, because I’m a heavy online news/commentary reader, exactly the person they should be making it easy for.

There’s really no other reason to go there, save for about 2 real reporters. I’ll just read their work indirectly, so I’m done with WaPo. Hiatt sucks. The editorial page super sucks. I won’t miss anything.

McClatchy is worlds better. So is TPM.

Then during the long presidential campaign my interests changed. I was less interested in Bush and more interested in the primaries and the presidential race. I rarely read Froomkin during this period, and even for the first two months after the inauguration. During this time I hardly ever saw a link to Froomkin on the WaPo’s front page. Lately I have started reading him again and I started seeing the links to his column appear again on the front page (probably at Dan’s insistence).

Second point. In Hiatt’s explanation of Froomkin’s firing he says “…the decision not to renew Dan’s contract–which was not made by me, but which I supported…” Who DID make the decision? Dick Cheney? Seriously, who is Fred Hiatt taking orders from?

And who IS Fred Hiatt? I can find very little on a quick Internet search (compare his Wikipedia page to Froomkin’s BTW), but from what I can find his resume at the time he was chosen editor of the editorial page is much thinner than Froomkin’s is right now (however Hiatt has authored two children’s books which Froomkin evidently has not).

As for traffic to Froomkin’s site, be careful about comparing his traffic to traffic to Krauthammer’s and other RW columnists. If you’ve ever read the comments to Krauthammer’s, and others, columns you will recognize that a lot of liberals read their columns and then rip them apart in the comments section. Much of this traffic is pushed to those columns by liberal bloggers who highlight the idiocy found in the columns. I suspect much of the traffic to those columns comes from liberals and that traffic might push their numbers above the traffic to Froomkin’s column.

I have scrubbed the Post from my browser and will only rarely visit (for local news only). I will not link to it in my blog and I encourage everyone else to boycott it as well.

Probably the WaPo kept Froomkin on as long as they did because it allowed them to say they publish a range of opinion. Eugene Robinson also serves the same purpose (of course the Post dare not fire him because of his recent Pulitzer), but he is syndicated so you don’t have to give the WaPo any hits to read him.

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