If you have any spare coins, and are interested in supporting one of the premier political bloggers and journalists as he expands his empire, I'd jump over to TPM and throw the coins into his virtual fedora.
Okay, enough threatening....
Okay, enough threatening. Like I said, we're expanding our operations at TPM. That will include a redesign of TPM, with expanded coverage of breaking news. But what we really want to do is more reporting, more muckraking. And that's where we want your help. We want to hire at least one reporter-blogger to report directly from Capitol Hill to you every day. And we're asking for your help...Now, over the next days and weeks I'll be sharing other details of what we've got planned. But a few quick words about what we're doing here. If you're a regular reader and you think you get value out of TPM and the reporting we do, please consider contributing. The best way to think of this is as a voluntary subscription charge. You subscribe to HBO, to the daily paper, to a few of your favorite magazines, etc. Think of this like that. We have costs just like they do. It's just that we don't make people subscribe because its intrinsic to our mission to make the information we publish available to as many people as possible. And we're going to use this money to bring you more of what you already read and enjoy in our virtual pages.
But please, do not give more than you can easily and painlessly contribute. All of our employees have salaries; they have health care coverage; we have an office, etc. As you can see in this description from Saturday's LA Times, it's far from palatial. But we're fine. This is to expand what we do. To hire more people to do more reporting.
I neglected to re-subscribe to Time Out Chicago recently, so re-directed the money to Josh Marshall's muckraking blog instead. He's done a lot of good investigative reporting work over the years. Sort of a spiritual descendent to my hero, Izzy Stone.
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