TPM needs your eyeballs!
No, no, no, we don’t want the actual balls. Or, we need them. But we don’t need you to take them out of your head or anything.
What we need is for you to put them to use for us.
Here at TPM we’re trying to track more than five hundred representatives and senators to find out what they’re saying about the Social Security phase-out debate. Not just what they say to the Post’s editors or to Wolf Blitzer, but everywhere. What do the local papers say? What shows up on the wires? What are they telling constituents?
Even with all the staffers here in the TPM newsroom, that’s an impossible task for us to do alone.
If you see Republicans who seem like they might be bailing on the president or Democrats who look like they might be bailing on Social Security, let us know. Send us the newspaper citation or the web link. Whatever you can point us to, drop us a line.
And that’s not all.
Tell us about the reporters. As we’re already seeing, many reporters — either through a mistaken understanding of journalistic objectivity or simple laziness — are taking demonstrable falsehoods coming out of the White House and either presenting them as fact or simply repeating them as one side of the argument.
We can cover a lot of ground, but obviously not all of it. But you can. If you see examples of egregriously bad reporting or just plain-old-fashioned journalistic inattention to fact, let us know. Give us the details.
