mark stoller

I work on new meedia efforts as a way to organize and spread critical thinking about D.C, the power structure, and the media:

Jay has a superb piece as to how Murray Waas is a much more important and useful journalist today than Bob Woodward. Rosen even goes so far as to dance around the claim that Woodward isn't really a journalist anymore, but an insider.

I don't hobnob with Bob Woodward or his ilk.. What Murrray Waas does strikes me as structurally different; he pores through documents, learns everything there is to know.. He's relentless, and he's focused on the big picture. And Firedoglake are right there chewing through the reporting with him.

Murray Waas is a neutral reporter. What progressive bloggers want is a credible media. To us, Bob Woodward is not credible, because his sympathies seem to lie with insiders rather than the public. Murray Waas represents the public.