Truthout needs our help to stay afloat

[Generic Other]

This is a call for help.

Truthout is in danger of not meeting their budget goal, which is critical. They need to raise $17,000 more by the end of the day to continue bringing transformative ideas and in-depth reporting. They have been primarily funded by readers (many DUers) for 11 years.

Support the writers, editors and others who make Truthout's work possible. Any amount will have an immediate impact: Can you make a tax-deductible donation today?

http://truth-out.org/members/donate

I have been reading Truthout since it started as have many DUers. DUer Will Pitt is a regular contributor. This publication has provided us with some of the more reliable reporting over the years. As we stand at the brink of another war much like we did 11 years ago, Truthout stands with us ready to report and expose what the MSM ignores or lies about. They need our support now more than ever. And I think we need them.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Done. n/t

[Nye Bevan]

2. It's certainly true that Truthout reports things that you won't find in the MSM (nt)

[libodem]

3. Dammit

I need to put my check in the mail for my star here. Must. Do. It. Today.

Skinner, the check will be in the mail....promise.

[HereSince1628]

4. Four words

Jason Leopold Karl Rove

[Generic Other]

5. No words

Read my thoughts.

[stevenleser]

8. Six words

That was a long time ago

Seriously. One mistake six plus years ago?

[HereSince1628]

9. Well, with that the straw met the camel.

Others may feel differently, though TO's difficulties may reflect a broader opinion than just mine.

[Generic Other]

20. I know a person with an ax to grind when I see one

Because I don't see you criticizing the NYT, WP, WSJ, Fox News, or any of the many others for lying through their teeth for years. No, you jump on this thread to criticize one reporter who inaccurately reported something years ago like you think you have earned a Pulitzer Prize for your hard hitting investigative journalism.

Of course, you do not report on the ongoing articles from Truthout concerning BP and the Gulf, Afghanistan, Wikileaks, Obama's whole term because you haven't read them, busy as you are being fixated on whether or not some reporter once predicted Rove's imminent indictment. While it didn't happen, it sure should have, but it is now 2013. No one blames anyone at Truthout because Rove isn't in jail. Even if one of their reporters once felt certain he would be.

Don't you feel a lot like yesterday's news?

[HereSince1628]

23. I suspect you see what you are willing to acknowledge

I have no interest in supporting TO. I don't like being presented with appeals to support Truthout.

It's been that way for quite some time. Drunks, drug users and editors who couldn't filter out the influences of both left me disaffected. It's been that way for quite sometime.

This one just happened to make through the network of TO related entries on my ignore list

[RussBLib]

6. Done. I just wish Soros or someone like him would drop a mill or two on them - n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Some of these sites operate for a year on less than a Republican dinner.

[Generic Other]

21. You are so right about that

Progressive sites are the only voices to counteract the rightwing spin and they are targeted unmercifully.

I still hate what happened to Air America and the local progressive programming. It was a travesty.

But those few dollars I normally lay aside for political candidates are going to places like Truthout who at least are upfront with me.

[cprise]

7. Donated

[G_j]

10. K&R

[lark]

11. done

I don't have much to give, but I did give something to this good cause.

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. Done.

Would that I could give more.

[bbgrunt]

13. done. nt

[Plucketeer]

14. DIDIT nt

[ANOIS]

15. Done! (nt)

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. I wish truthout could find a way to merge with Credo or some other progressive on-line group

I think it needs to be a bigger presence. Both Credo and Truthout do.

[Suich]

17. Done! n/t

[Zorra]

19. Done. nt

[riderinthestorm]

22. Done. Kick! nt

[Shankapotomus]

24. Done /nt

[proverbialwisdom]

25. MUST READ.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18479-in-the-absence-of-heroes

[WilliamPitt]

26. Wow.

Thank you.

[Generic Other]

30. Please correct me if my memory is hazy

but I recall Truthout as owing its foundational moments to the day you and Matcom and some other DUers marched down to Harvard Square and started handing out a DU inspired antiwar manifesto to passersby. Somehow, we all gathered the strength to lift our voices when the air was thick with lies, yellow cake and WMD. Who would think we'd be doing it again 11 years later?

[WilliamPitt]

31. Not even close.

Truthout was founded the day after Selection 2000. I didn't start working there until January 2002. I'd been a DU member since May 2001.

The moment you remember was wholly and purely a DU event. And it was amazing.

[Generic Other]

32. Oops I think it's the deja vu getting to me all over again...

Well, I do recall the antiwar manifesto as one of the first concerted DU "actions" nonetheless. And it was amazing!

[emsimon33]

27. Done K&R & thank you for the alert

[Bennyboy]

29. Dunne

i love truthout....................

[hedda_foil]

33. Done. Thanks for the heads up. knr nt.

[Shankapotomus]

34. kick! /nm

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. kick