It is with no small amount of mixed feel­ings that I notice that Michael Tot­ten has embarked on a dar­ing new exper­i­ment in reader-funded jour­nal­ism.
Oh, wait. It’s not new at all. (See: Iraq​.com, Back-to–)
On the one hand, I’m glad that more peo­ple are work­ing to do their own thing and bring­ing nuanced, insight­ful jour­nal­ism to the read­ing pub­lic with­out the bag­gage that main­stream media often attach. On the other hand, Tot­ten usu­ally has a some­what con­ser­v­a­tive rah-Amurricah tone that sets my teeth a-grate. That said, he does get out there and do some report­ing. While he’s not my cup of tea — I find his Mid­dle East report­ing naive and American-centric — give him a read. I’ll let you decide if it’s worth donat­ing. I’m going to pop him $5 on principle.