TheWaPo's 'Secret America' Project: cheesy name, terrific reporting. http://bit.ly/10RwS Show me the bloggers who could have done this!
Kyle Pope
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The Observer-of which this Twitter tweeter is the editor-is currently hiring! On the web side. For an editor to manage the content produced by the paper's bloggers and stuff. Annnyhoo! Also you know what else didn't produce a series like the Washington Post's Secret America series, which can be viewed as an actual article instead of a really annoying slideshow, if you view the print version? Conde Nast Portfolio! RIP. Our best wishes to everyone in the pursuit of journalistic excellence online and in print.
Choire I really like how you're taking Conde to the mat today. I feel alone in this charge sometimes. Can we talk about the NY'er's teeny Times New Roman center column and disastrous "Print" function?
No, no, let's talk about the NY'er's completely dysfunctional digital edition for subscribers.
You know who couldn't possibly have produced "Top Secret America" without the Internet geniuses of Wikileaks? The Washington Post.
Yeah, newspapers were really bad at getting leaks before the Internet came along.
Come on Barthel. Daniel Ellsberg said only a few days ago that in the 39 years since his own, erm, incident, there hadn't been a comparable example until Bradley Manning. Why not?
In this instance, the sheer volume of information in the Top Secret America database almost has to have come from Wikileaks; they hinted as much themselves on Saturday.
Wikileaks is turning into such a huge force because they've made a point of not being able to trace where the material comes from. And it's only just starting, I think.
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While I like commenting on the print version, I'm sick of fighting with you guys for the pen.
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Marcy Wheeler does this kind of deep research all the time.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/