Comments on: Congratulations to TPMM http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: earlofhuntingdon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53799 earlofhuntingdon Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:25:25 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53799 <p>I agree with the point about the Josh’s comments sections. Several good commentators, such as TheraP, frequent the site, but the threads are unwieldy and vary considerably in quality. </p> <p>For my money, the best comments section on the web is here. Comments are intelligent, some thrillingly so. They stick to the main thread and are consistently polite. Infrequent forays into personal attack are usually explicable by some nauseating zinger from the White House or those who muck out its stables, like the legion of ex-DOJ officials who think Bradbury too timid in his support for torture. </p> <p>Many thanks to all for making it that way. The next eleven months will be a real test of those attributes, as will the first hundred days of the next administration.</p> I agree with the point about the Josh’s comments sections. Several good commentators, such as TheraP, frequent the site, but the threads are unwieldy and vary considerably in quality.

For my money, the best comments section on the web is here. Comments are intelligent, some thrillingly so. They stick to the main thread and are consistently polite. Infrequent forays into personal attack are usually explicable by some nauseating zinger from the White House or those who muck out its stables, like the legion of ex-DOJ officials who think Bradbury too timid in his support for torture.

Many thanks to all for making it that way. The next eleven months will be a real test of those attributes, as will the first hundred days of the next administration.

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53777 JohnLopresti Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:17:26 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53777 <p>There are several deserving authors, and some smart business owners, developing this medium. I am concerned and worried about the loss to TPMM of Spencer Ackerman’s departure, but glad Paul Kiel is helping folks like the Balkinization crew with document sharing. I also take interest in the quality of threads, which sometimes is a field in which TPMM has difficulty; yet, the parent TPM site often is too dense to fit within my fixed time constraints, so I am sure Josh doubly deserves this leading accolade which he has received. And his folks have entry into places with good informational sources; they probably qualify for journalist passes to Hearings, too. I would like Laura Rozen and some other hard working and insightful people to be in next year’s finalist assemblage. I had the pleasure of typing a few miscellaneous impromptu interchanges a while at obsidian wings, yet another site that has morphed into a new shape. Though how a leader like ew or Jane could be selected for an award is beyond my comparative research reference paradigms. Our hosts are the pinnacle.</p> There are several deserving authors, and some smart business owners, developing this medium. I am concerned and worried about the loss to TPMM of Spencer Ackerman’s departure, but glad Paul Kiel is helping folks like the Balkinization crew with document sharing. I also take interest in the quality of threads, which sometimes is a field in which TPMM has difficulty; yet, the parent TPM site often is too dense to fit within my fixed time constraints, so I am sure Josh doubly deserves this leading accolade which he has received. And his folks have entry into places with good informational sources; they probably qualify for journalist passes to Hearings, too. I would like Laura Rozen and some other hard working and insightful people to be in next year’s finalist assemblage. I had the pleasure of typing a few miscellaneous impromptu interchanges a while at obsidian wings, yet another site that has morphed into a new shape. Though how a leader like ew or Jane could be selected for an award is beyond my comparative research reference paradigms. Our hosts are the pinnacle.

]]> By: klynn http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53747 klynn Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:14:45 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53747 <p>phred @ 9 (sorry my end not replying when I click on reply)</p> <p>You made me giggle with that!</p> <p>EW-</p> <p>”…by using new techniques that emphasize collaboration over competition and by working with readers and through collective weight of many news sources to expose government misconduct…”</p> <p>The collaboration, collective weight to expose government misconduct…I like that part.</p> <p>BTW EW, bloggers now qualify to be nominated for Pulitzers…I think you would hae a chance at one…</p> <p>This was great news for you to share. Thanks! (folo too).</p> phred @ 9 (sorry my end not replying when I click on reply)

You made me giggle with that!

EW-

”…by using new techniques that emphasize collaboration over competition and by working with readers and through collective weight of many news sources to expose government misconduct…”

The collaboration, collective weight to expose government misconduct…I like that part.

BTW EW, bloggers now qualify to be nominated for Pulitzers…I think you would hae a chance at one…

This was great news for you to share. Thanks! (folo too).

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53729 earlofhuntingdon Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:35:00 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53729 <p>In a relatively short time, Josh Marshall has built a successful, small reporting empire (eg, TPM, TPM Muckraker, Horse’s Mouth and TPM TV). Along with FDL, EW and others, he is revivifying quality, popular journalism at a time when traditional media are working hard to vivisect it. The Polk Award underlines how important that work is to keeping democracy alive. Many thanks for all your efforts.</p> In a relatively short time, Josh Marshall has built a successful, small reporting empire (eg, TPM, TPM Muckraker, Horse’s Mouth and TPM TV). Along with FDL, EW and others, he is revivifying quality, popular journalism at a time when traditional media are working hard to vivisect it. The Polk Award underlines how important that work is to keeping democracy alive. Many thanks for all your efforts.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53727 earlofhuntingdon Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:25:29 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53727 <p>Full credit and many thanks to Josh and his team for identifying, breaking and sticking with the political firings of US Attorneys. Most especially for devising or using the data dump format that allowed thousands of readers and hundreds of commentators to pour through the DOJ documents, no doubt delivered with the defense attorneys usual “52 card pick-up” amount of chaos, to make the job as hard and long as possible (all without violating ethical obligations, of course). </p> <p>Kudos are owed, also, to EW and FDL, for effectively complementing that research, writing and publication effort. And especially for pioneering live blogging at hearings (notably, the Libby trial), which helped re-open the doors of America’s courthouses and hearing rooms, which Bush, Cheney and Addington have worked so hard to slam shut.</p> Full credit and many thanks to Josh and his team for identifying, breaking and sticking with the political firings of US Attorneys. Most especially for devising or using the data dump format that allowed thousands of readers and hundreds of commentators to pour through the DOJ documents, no doubt delivered with the defense attorneys usual “52 card pick-up” amount of chaos, to make the job as hard and long as possible (all without violating ethical obligations, of course).

Kudos are owed, also, to EW and FDL, for effectively complementing that research, writing and publication effort. And especially for pioneering live blogging at hearings (notably, the Libby trial), which helped re-open the doors of America’s courthouses and hearing rooms, which Bush, Cheney and Addington have worked so hard to slam shut.

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53723 readerOfTeaLeaves Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:12:38 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53723 <p>Heartening.<br /> And even more remarkable when one considers that as briefly as one year ago, the MSM reporters were being told by sources on the Hill that there was nothing wrong at DoJ.</p> Heartening.
And even more remarkable when one considers that as briefly as one year ago, the MSM reporters were being told by sources on the Hill that there was nothing wrong at DoJ.

]]> By: phred http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53687 phred Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:02:56 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53687 <p>So do you think DoJ will put TPMM back on their mailing list now? ; )</p> So do you think DoJ will put TPMM back on their mailing list now? ; )

]]> By: MarieRoget http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53686 MarieRoget Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:56:34 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53686 <p>So true. Congrats due here as well on excellent coverage of the USAs firing scandal- ew & FDL were cutting edge, right on top of it. </p> <p>I shouldn’t refer to it in the past- denouement for those responsible is yet to come.</p> So true. Congrats due here as well on excellent coverage of the USAs firing scandal- ew & FDL were cutting edge, right on top of it.

I shouldn’t refer to it in the past- denouement for those responsible is yet to come.

]]> By: TheraP http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53681 TheraP Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:48:04 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53681 <p>The selfless work being done by a number of bloggers digging in to this and so many other scandals is very moving and heartening. Josh may have <em>won</em> this, but the truth is that many, including EW and others here, have also contributed.</p> <p>I say: Hats off to all!</p> The selfless work being done by a number of bloggers digging in to this and so many other scandals is very moving and heartening. Josh may have won this, but the truth is that many, including EW and others here, have also contributed.

I say: Hats off to all!

]]> By: skdadl http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53679 skdadl Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:46:51 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/19/congratulations-to-tpmm/#comment-53679 <p>Great news — congratulations to Josh and the TPM crew. And then everything that mkls said @ 2.</p> Great news — congratulations to Josh and the TPM crew. And then everything that mkls said @ 2.

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