What We Do Here

We don’t typically break the news. Somebody else reported most of what you will find here.

The goal here is to write news without writing anything at all. No possible spin.

We believe it’s time for the readers to reach their own opinion as opposed to having it fed to them.

The rules this is held to.

Every fact carries its source, linked at the point the fact is made. If I cannot source it, it does not run.

Every file includes the part that cuts against it. A page about two campaigns’ attack ads takes apart both campaigns’ ads. A page about a president’s endorsement record opens with the numbers that favor him. If a file has nothing inconvenient in it, it is not finished.

No adjectives doing the work of evidence. If the order of events makes a point, the order makes it. I do not need to tell you how to feel about a date.

Numbers get a timestamp when they are still moving, and estimates get called estimates. A page will tell you when something is not settled rather than picking a side of it quietly.

If something here is wrong.

There is a text box at the bottom of every page. No email required, no press contact, no form. You type, it lands, I read it. A correction runs as soon as I can confirm it, and the file says that it moved.

A source file is meant to stay useful after the news cycle that produced it has moved on, so the ones here get added to rather than replaced. If a page has been updated, it says when.