unusual transparency

If you're considering becoming an investigative blogger-journalist, read David Goldstein on the David Irons story he broke. He goes into "excruciatingly boring detail" to refute the claim that Ron Sims' campaign is somehow behind the story.

That is the genesis of my post. Nobody pushed it to me. Nobody fed me any easy information. I did some of that journalistic stuff that I really don’t like to do (it’s too much damn work), and that’s how I got the story. To imply otherwise is not only wrong, it diminishes the effort I put into a detailed, 3300-word piece.

It is the kind of openness and accountability you will likely never see from an MSM reporter--except maybe in a private conversation or a courtroom.