Thank you, Salon

During the 2000 election, I thought Salon had the best political coverage anywhere. It look like they are gearing up for the same. Salon is one of my must read sites each day. An excerpt of their plans:

Salon '04: Unembedded, unintimidated
Introducing Salon's new Washington bureau, led by Sidney Blumenthal, just in time for the presidential election.

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March 10, 2004 | The presidential campaign is already heating up, and so is Salon. I'm excited to announce that beginning this week Salon is rolling out a series of new editorial initiatives that will propel our political and news coverage to a new level. First of all, Salon is opening a Washington bureau under the direction of veteran political journalist Sidney Blumenthal, whose bestselling account of his days as a senior aide to President Clinton, "The Clinton Wars," was serialized by Salon last year.

"The country wants and needs unintimidated news," says Blumenthal. "The Bush administration has put enormous political pressure on the press not to probe its radical policies and their consequences. Salon intends to be fearless." Under Blumenthal's leadership, Salon's new Washington bureau will produce a flow of revealing stories about the Bush administration and the election.

On Wednesday Salon is running "The New Pentagon Papers," an exclusive, eyewitness account of how Bush officials inside the Defense Department twisted intelligence in the rush to the Iraq war. The author of the article, Karen Kwiatkowski, is a retired lieutenant colonel formerly assigned to the Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon. In her extraordinary 5,500-word account, Kwiatkowski writes: "I saw a narrow and deeply flawed policy favored by some executive appointees in the Pentagon used to manipulate and pressurize the traditional relationship between policymakers in the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to the Congress. I observed how the distorted intelligence and sharpened political talking points were funneled to the Office of Vice President Cheney."

On Thursday, Salon will publish the first of several advance excerpts from "House of Bush, House of Saud," a new book by Craig Unger that explores the relationship between the two dynasties, whose explosive contents have been embargoed. In the first installment, Unger, who has written for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, will expose shocking new details on the flights approved by the Bush White House that carried members of the bin Laden family and other prominent Saudis out of the U.S. to Saudi Arabia after Sept. 11. Salon will publish for the first time the manifest of the passenger list and identify one passenger as a suspected al-Qaida funder who was aware ahead of time of the Sept. 11 attack.

edit: forgot the link...sigh.

http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2004/03/10/dc_bureau/index.html

The gop mean machine viciously attacked Sidney Blumenthal and others all throughout the 90's. The attackees are coming back to cross swords with the attackers. Blumenthal is a courageous, honest, and thanks to the gop hate machine, passionate advocate. Those in the gop power base have been set back on their heels at this outpouring of disdain and disgust. To find an answer to their quandry, they may choose to look in the mirror.

I echo your sentiments - THANKS, SALON

Finally, some real investigative reporting. I cannot wait for the House of Bush/House of Saud to hit the news. Will Tweety and the others give these story some play?

It is a great thing. I joined Salon last night for the first time.

to relentlessly partisan Democratic advocacy. Every one of its political pieces on display today shows a no-nonsense adherence to hard fact, investigative reporting, and a hard-nosed anti-Republican outlook.

The Pugs don't call him "Sid Vicious" for nothing! :thumbsup:

I'm going to their site right now!

I remember when Salon started to edge it's way towards a pro-Bush stance after 9/11.

It was YOU- the Liberal online community who stayed on them and made then realize they were losing readers.

Dont thank Salon, thank yourself.

A Salon membership is truly one of the most worthwhile purchases liberals and progressives can make.

I first joined Salon a few years ago, when it looked like they were in financial trouble and may be shuttering their windows. Losing the best voice in investigative journalism scared the hell out of me, and I signed right up. I've never regretted it, and cheerfully re-up every year.

Just. Do. It.

:D

We really need to show our support (if and when we can) to any and all progressive causes. I mean that obviously for those who are able, I know a lot of folks aren't.

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