Columnists on the Central Oregon Web Log

This page provides links to web sites maintained by a variety of established journalists that represent the best in this profession that is not always well-served by many of its practitioners.

David Corn is the Washington editor of The Nation, the oldest political weekly in America, and a Fox News Channel contributor. He writes on a host of subjects, including politics, the White House, Congress, and the national security establishment. He has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and other Washington players and institutions. He currently writes a web column for The Nation called "Capital Games".

William Greider, a prominent political journalist and author, has been a reporter for more than 35 years for newspapers, magazines and television. Over the past two decades, he has persistently challenged mainstream thinking on economics.

Molly Ivins is one of the good guys from Texas and knows more about the Bush family than they would wish.

Lifeboat News is an alternative news source published by veteran investigative journalist William Thomas.

Greg Palast - Investigative Journalist and author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

Robert Scheer is one of a small number of American journalists living up to high standards of journalistic integrity. His web site has a valuable archive of his articles.

uExpress Opinions features a range of national columnists from the extreme right (Ann Coulter) to the more responsible (Georgie Anne Geyer, Mary McGrory, Cynthia Tucker) for convenience of on-line archives.

Robert Fisk is a featured columnist for The Independent (UK) and one of the world's most respected journalists. His work focuses mainly on the Middle East.

Nat Hentoff's columns dealing with human and civil rights are featured on line at the Village Voice.

Seymour Hersh is a regular columnist at the New Yorker. He has written articles of major importance from the exposure of atrocities at My Lai in Vietnam to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

George Monbiot, an English journalist, is highly critical of the capitalist system and abuse of the environment.

John Pilger is an Australian journalist and producer of TV documentaries. His reporting and commentaries cover areas that go well beyond the mainstream media. Pilger has been the recipient of many respected awards.

Capitol Hill Blue "is a non-partisan, take-no-prisoners political news site launched by ex-newspaperman Doug Thompson in October 1994. That makes us the oldest surviving news site on the Internet. But don't take our word for it. Go to Google and see if you can find anything older.

"Blue's editor is Terry Hampton, another journalist who began her career with newspapers and our lead investigative reporter is Bill McTavish.. They are sometimes joined by a rotating group of current and ex-newspaper men and women who wander in like the homeless. Some still work for news organizations and use Capitol Hill Blue as an outlet for the stories their outfits don't have the guts to publish. Others are retired, but can't give up the Muse.

"Nobody here draws a salary. Blue is a not-for-profit operation where everyone donates their time and efforts. Any revenue we might bring in from ads goes back into the operation."