The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to reduce the influence of corporate money on federal elections. At first blush, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission appears to Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Washington Independent
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, but I think if I were to read this publication or pick up a print version of it, if there is one, I would expect that. I do like the amount of linking that is included in the article. This is something that adds a lot to an online article and so many publications are against linking when the Internet is really just a path of hyperlinks.
