Can anyone tell me about The Washington Independent?

[northofdenali]

http://washingtonindependent.com/

Several friends forward articles from them; they appear to be a left-leaning, D.C. based online newspaper. Couple of interesting headlines:

"Systemic Failures May Give Blackwater Another Afghanistan Contract"
http://washingtonindependent.com/78537/systemic-failures-may-give-blackwater-another-afghanistan-contract

"Massy to Resign After All"
http://washingtonindependent.com/78680/massa-to-resign-after-all

Like many of us, I like to have more than one friend's opinion on a source, and don't like to use same without some confirmation. What are my fellow DU'ers experiences/opinions?

[babylonsister]

1. I refer to them often. They seem pretty even-handed to me, and

Spencer Ackerman has been around for quite awhile. Seems he took a leftward drift during the Bush years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Ackerman

[Stephanie]

2. Their Orly updates are hilarious

Seems like a good publication to me.

[northofdenali]

3. Thanks friends.

In this day and age of spoofism, cronyitis and screaming fundamentalonia, I depend on DU'ers to tell it like it is.

I'll read on, thank you! :pals: