I tend to believe they really let go of Froomkin because of his continual criticism of W's Administration, more than a decline in web traffic.
However this makes me wonder - why do so many people tune into right-wing columnists who are constantly wrong and/or dishonest in their writing? How do people like them continue to hold jobs at such media corporations, while people like Froomkin are let go?
Do these large media corporations have some right-wing slant? Perhaps they do, but I suspect it's something a lot less sinister.
It's the Howard Stern syndrome with these right-wing-slanted columnists. I suspect the a large bloc of their readers are people who tune into what they say and write are people who largely disagree with them, just because they want to hear what they say next.
The problem is in doing so, those people are only generating ad revenue for the corporations that pay them. So they remain and continue to poison the public discourse.
The ONLY thing these corporations understand is revenue. Stop supporting them by linking to them and others like Faux News, Politico, WashTimes, etc.
There's no point in linking to a group of individuals who collectively have nothing useful to contribute to any discussion on anything. They are either dishonest, ignorant, or both on the subjects they write about.
Let the folks at Media Matters spend the time correcting their lies and falsehoods.
The rest of society should spend more time focusing on the Obama Administration policies and working to ensure they are the correct solutions to the nations's problems.
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