Michael Saum

This symbiosis has been a long time coming. But it’s more evident every day as Internet-based reporters are increasingly setting priorities for the national news agenda. Greg Sargent lauded Murray Waas , an independent web reporter. Jay Rosen crowned Murray Waas the “Woodward of now'.

Murray Waas at National Journal is proving himself the best muckraker in Washington: Take Waas' lastest expose, documenting the Bush administration's top-level machinations to cover up what Bush knew, and when Bush knew. "Presidential knowledge was the ball game," says a former senior government official. "The mission was to insulate the president. It was about making it appear that he wasn't in the know. You could do that on Niger. You couldn't do that with the aluminum tubes."