“Remapping Debate”:http://remappingdebate.org/ looks to be an interesting new source of reporting on politics and public policy. One of its reporters, Greg Marx, wrote “this piece”:https://themonkeycage.org/2010/06/cjr_on_polsci_blogs_and_journa.html about political science and blogging. Here is Remapping Debate’s “mission”:http://remappingdebate.org/about. I particularly like their feature “Story Repair,” where they:
bq. select a story that appeared in a major news outlet and take it in for repairs. The stories we choose are not necessarily “fatally” flawed; on the contrary, in many cases, they’ll bring genuinely newsworthy information to light. But our goal is to show how, with a similar investment of time, a different set of interviews or line of questioning could have produced a different — and, we hope, more illuminating — article.
Contrast “this piece”:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42836.html from Politico with their “repaired” “version”:http://remappingdebate.org/article/47-house-dems-keep-lower-rates-rich-dividends-capital-gains. I was particularly struck by the questions they asked of members of Congress that Politico didn’t.