A number of you have written in to ask whether there’s a permanent link you can use to access our new Daily Muck feature.
The answer is, not yet. But it requires a bit more explanation.
As you know, we’re building toward launching our new site, TPMmuckraker.com. It should come online right around the beginning of the month. The Daily Muck will be part of TPMmuckraker. But we decided to get the Muck started over at TPMCafe for the next few weeks just to get the muckraking juices flowing now and have the format down pat for when it’s folded into TPMmuckraker.com.
If you’ve read the Muck already, you know it’s written by Paul Kiel. So let me take a moment to introduce him. Paul’s the first of our two hires for TPMmuckraker. Drop him a line, say hi, give him a lecture about the high standards of meticulousness and zealousness you require from him in terms of his muckraking activities and so forth. (You can drop Paul a line through the regular TPM comment email address.)
On a more practical note, in addition to the original reporting the new site will feature, we want the Daily Muck to pull together all the key muck in the news each day, one digestible muck run-down to keep you up to speed on public villainies of all sorts being perpretrated around the country.
And our advantage in being able to put that together is you.
Needless to say, we’ll be checking the Times and Post and the major national news outlets everyday to track the latest developments in these stories. But my experience running this site for more than five years tells me that some of the most telling clues and breaks in the story first pop up in news outlets that run beneath the radar of the national political press — local and regional papers, television stations, magazines, and so forth. And of course we want your tips too.
So as we move forward, if you see a story in your local paper about your congressman and Jack Abramoff or any other nugget you see that you think deserves wider exposure, send it in to use. If you think it’s muck-worthy, flag its mucktitude for Paul in the subject line.
And, of course, let us know how you think we’re doing.
