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 contributions to make that happen.
You’ve seen the kind of work we do with the US Attorney Purge story, the Abramoff scandal, the Cunningham investigation and other shorter-term stories like the pre-election GOP robocall scam or Foleygate. That’s what we do. And now we’d like to do more of it. And that means more reporters.
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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 say this because I often get emails from readers who are on fixed incomes or unemployed or with other financial hardships saying how they’re going to send in contributions when they can scrape some money together. You honor us with your readership and generosity. But please don’t contribute if you’re in anything like that kind of situation. That’s meant very seriously and very sincerely.
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