Robert Parry: Telling Truth Early

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Telling Truth Early

By Robert Parry
March 31, 2008

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One of our top goals at Consortiumnews.com – and what I’ve tried to do throughout my three-decade career in national journalism – is to give readers important information that they haven’t encountered elsewhere, what you might call telling truth early.

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For instance, an article that I wrote at the time of the New Hampshire primary cited Hillary Clinton’s attempt to save her campaign by playing the gender card, a move that I warned could push the Democrats into an ugly battle over identity politics and arguments over which group – women or blacks – had the greater claim to victimization.

Some Clinton supporters were angry. They either didn’t want to believe the story or didn’t want others to see it. However, it was – like many of our other articles – simply an attempt to give our readers important information in a timely fashion.

So, that is what we hope to continue doing. And we need your help to do it.

For our spring fundraiser, we have set a modest goal of $25,000. But we must reach it if we are to continue functioning through the months ahead.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/033008.html