Employed activists make poor journalists. People working for advocacy organizations are generally untrainable as journalists.

What is “Stateline”?

Remember when reporters told us what they are talking about? Activists, on the other hand, prefer to create a sense that they are part of a group that is “in the know” so outsiders – the general public – and in particular pychologically needy, easily persuaded, often youthful or immature adults will presume everybody who is anybody already knows the information a journalist withheld.

The other dynamic is that NMI is basically subsidizing the activist's activism. The “news” in this story is nothing more than speculation — one paragraph at the end of the story that tells us what “is possible here.” The rest of the story is a rehash of material that could be linked from Stateline.org. By the way, there is no such thing as “Stateline” as the Southwest Organizing Project activist who wrote this story claimed. The publication's online masthead bears the name “Stateline.org.” Stateline.org is a Web publication by the Pew Center on the States, an research group funded by Pew Charitable Trusts.

Established in 1948 by Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew, the Pew trusts have traditionally funded conservative causes, including the John Birch Society, the American Liberty League, and the American Enterprise Institute, though they also contribute to the American Red Cross and to African-American educational institutions. Strange the left-leaning advocacy writer would not tell us the first thing about her source, not so much as a link or even the correct name, which comprises an URL that can be used to find more information about the source. That is especially strange from a writer who typically loads her articles with mystery meat links to various liberal or government Web sites.

Notice how the software on this site automatically links stateline.org — because it is programmed to recognize .org or .com suffixes? It seems Marjorie Childress went out of her way to avoid any links to the conservative source she milked to earn her activist subsidy today.

Of course, chances are 50:50 an editor will correct Childress' uh, oversight (?). If so, I thank myself because I'm not accustomed to getting any thanks from management or editors here, their claimed support for citizen journalists notwithstanding.

Employed activists make poor journalists. People working for advocacy organizations are generally untrainable as journalists.

What is “Stateline”?

Remember when reporters told us what they are talking about? Activists, on the other hand, prefer to create a sense that they are part of a group that is “in the know” so outsiders – the general public – and in particular pychologically needy, easily persuaded, often youthful or immature adults will presume everybody who is anybody already knows the information a journalist withheld.

The other dynamic is that NMI is basically subsidizing the activist's activism. The “news” in this story is nothing more than speculation — one paragraph at the end of the story that tells us what “is possible here.” The rest of the story is a rehash of material that could be linked from Stateline.org. By the way, there is no such thing as “Stateline” as the Southwest Organizing Project activist who wrote this story claimed. The publication's online masthead bears the name “Stateline.org.” Stateline.org is a Web publication by the Pew Center on the States, an research group funded by Pew Charitable Trusts.

Established in 1948 by Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew, the Pew trusts have traditionally funded conservative causes, including the John Birch Society, the American Liberty League, and the American Enterprise Institute, though they also contribute to the American Red Cross and to African-American educational institutions. Strange the left-leaning advocacy writer would not tell us the first thing about her source, not so much as a link or even the correct name, which comprises an URL that can be used to find more information about the source. That is especially strange from a writer who typically loads her articles with mystery meat links to various liberal or government Web sites.

Notice how the software on this site automatically links stateline.org — because it is programmed to recognize .org or .com suffixes? It seems Marjorie Childress went out of her way to avoid any links to the conservative source she milked to earn her activist subsidy today.

Of course, chances are 50:50 an editor will correct Childress' uh, oversight (?). If so, I thank myself because I'm not accustomed to getting any thanks from management or editors here, their claimed support for citizen journalists notwithstanding.

Employed activists make poor journalists. People working for advocacy organizations are generally untrainable as journalists.

What is “Stateline”?

Remember when reporters told us what they are talking about? Activists, on the other hand, prefer to create a sense that they are part of a group that is “in the know” so outsiders – the general public – and in particular pychologically needy, easily persuaded, often youthful or immature adults will presume everybody who is anybody already knows the information a journalist withheld.

The other dynamic is that NMI is basically subsidizing the activist's activism. The “news” in this story is nothing more than speculation — one paragraph at the end of the story that tells us what “is possible here.” The rest of the story is a rehash of material that could be linked from Stateline.org. By the way, there is no such thing as “Stateline” as the Southwest Organizing Project activist who wrote this story claimed. The publication's online masthead bears the name “Stateline.org.” Stateline.org is a Web publication by the Pew Center on the States, an research group funded by Pew Charitable Trusts.

Established in 1948 by Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew, the Pew trusts have traditionally funded conservative causes, including the John Birch Society, the American Liberty League, and the American Enterprise Institute, though they also contribute to the American Red Cross and to African-American educational institutions. Strange the left-leaning advocacy writer would not tell us the first thing about her source, not so much as a link or even the correct name, which comprises an URL that can be used to find more information about the source. That is especially strange from a writer who typically loads her articles with mystery meat links to various liberal or government Web sites.

Notice how the software on this site automatically links stateline.org — because it is programmed to recognize .org or .com suffixes? It seems Marjorie Childress went out of her way to avoid any links to the conservative source she milked to earn her activist subsidy today.

Of course, chances are 50:50 an editor will correct Childress' uh, oversight (?). If so, I thank myself because I'm not accustomed to getting any thanks from management or editors here, their claimed support for citizen journalists notwithstanding.