Capitol Hill Blue is best described by their own FAQ, which has the
following paragraph as part.

"Musings, brain drain and rantings started by a grouchy old ex-newspaperman
named Doug Thompson in October 1994. That makes us the oldest surviving news
site on the Internet. But dont' take our word for it. Go to Google and see
if you can find anything older. Bet ya can't.
Sometimes he is joined, more or less, by a ragtag cast of current and
ex-newspaper men and women who wander in and out of here like homeless
children. Some still work for news organizations and use Capitol Hill Blue
as an outlet for the stories their outfits don't have the guts to publish.
Others are retired, but can't give up the Muse.

Nobody here draws a salary. We couldn't afford to pay salaries anyway. All
money, if we ever get around to making any, will go back into the product.
Or maybe we'll send out for pizza. But it couldn't be any bigger than a
medium."

What it makes is a credentialled reporter that's taken it upon himself to do
what he sees as right, not just report the news in the real world of a
journalist. That's fine because that's basically all we have anymore. We
don't have "reporting", we have pontification as the norm. Doug has
history, contacts and the agenda to present the news he can garner. He's
neither more right nor more wrong than others, but he is less likely to
present inaccurate information one might find on The Drudge Report. He
truthfully deals in news, not innuendo and misinformation.
--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"Ricky W. Hunt" wrote in message
news:LXHwc.9892$HG.7998@attbi_s53...
"Roger W. Norman" wrote in message
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http://www.capitolhillblue.com/

I know that but what is it? Is it a site "of record"? It's seem all that's
required to "validate" anything today is to point to a URL where a person
read something. There's thousands of these listen places but dubious (if
any) real journalism. Even the big hard papers we used to could trust are
becoming suspect. It's just that I'd never heard of capitolhillblue and
couldn't find any references to them other than other sites just like it
quoting it. Do they have any street creed or cache that we should believe
what they say?