This morning we were the first to bring you the news of John McCain nationwide robo-call campaign charging that Obama is putting “Hollywood Above America”, whatever that means. As is so often the case, we got the original tip from a TPM Reader. And once we reported it, we heard from a host of you who’d already gotten the call in your own state.
So I wanted to take a moment again to remind you that we need your ears and eyes. We’re fine if they remain on your face. We don’t need you to send them in. But we rely on you to tip us off about robo-calls you get, mailers you receive in the mail, ads you see running on TV. If you hear or see something that seems out of the ordinary, don’t assume we already know about it.
You can contact us at our tip and comment email address which is linked right up there at the upper right hand corner of the site. Those emails don’t just fly off into the ether. I still read most of them. And for those I don’t manage to get to (we get several hundred a day), I’m one of eleven full time staffers here at TPM who are reading them too. So they all get looked at. And they are very often the basis of our biggest exclusives.
And one more point. Now we’re in the final three weeks of the campaign. This is when the really squirrelly stuff happens. In part that’s because this is when both sides are throwing everything they have into the mix. But it’s also close enough to the final day that campaigns figure (often rightly) that they won’t get caught with whatever they’re doing until after election day — at which point they won’t really care.
So keep your eyes out. And remember we rely on you, more directly and consistently than you likely imagine, to let us know where the story is, where we should be throwing our resources and what outrage or major development the bigs just aren’t seeing.
