I think this is good journalism in that it presents the facts in a way that is fairly easy to understand without much prior information on the subject. It lays out the facts in a very clear way. There is a lot of context provided that helps make the story feel relevant. If there had just been a bunch of facts crammed into an inverted pyramid style it would be too dense, but instead there is some sense of a narrative, just with the characters and plots revolving on Supreme Court cases and the progress, or lack thereof, for campaign finance reform. At times the writing seems to become a bit too colloquial and I hate to use it in any derogatory sense, but it is at times “bloggish”. There seems to be a definite liberal bias, ... More »