At the start of the year, I chastised Washington Post blogger Dan Froomkin for what I perceived to be a double standard in how he approached his job as a White House watchdog.

Yesterday, Froomkin learned that the Post will not renew his contract to write “White House Watch” because “interest in the blog also diminished.”

As someone who endured two layoffs within a year and is now serving in a temporary job during hard economic times, I hate to see anyone lose his job. But I believe Froomkin, a liberal, hastened the demise of his own blog when he wondered aloud whether he should be less skeptical of President Obama than he was President Bush, a relatively conservative president.

His lack of coverage of Obama’s firing of a supposedly independent inspector general provides evidence that he has been doing just that.

Read my thoughts on Froomkin at On Target, the blog of Accuracy In Media.