Dan Froomkin's Hard-Edged Polemics Are More Popular Than David Broder's Mushy Centrism
December 31, 2007 -- 1:05 PM EST // //

Over the weekend The Washington Post published a list of its top ten most popular opinion pieces of 2007, ranked by page views. It was gratifying to note that three of these were written by Dan Froomkin, while exactly none was written by David Broder (or David Ignatius, for that matter).

Mushy, platitudinous sermons about centrism just don't get people clicking the way hard-edged, and yes, partisan polemics do, it seems. In a sane world this might inspire WaPo's editors to listen to their paper's readership, rather than their own ideological leanings, and consider giving Froomkin a platform rivaling Broder's in the dead-tree edition of the paper one of these days. Not that he needs it.

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