Maddow On OpenLeft's Role In the Mediasphere

by: David Sirota

Thu Nov 12, 2009 at 15:49

If you are reading this blog post, it's a good bet you have a pretty good idea of what we do here at OpenLeft. However, I wanted to point you to this clip from Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show this week just to give you a sense of how the work on this site has become an important part of the burgeoning progressive media in America.

As you'll see, Maddow explicitly cites and credits research from OpenLeft in opening up a discussion about trade policy, economics and corruption. This piece was not specially sent to her by any of us - she (or her producers) found it simply by reading this site, suggesting that she and many others in the mediasphere are reading this site regularly. In that way, I think her clip is a pretty good example of how - on a very lean budget - OpenLeft has really been able to make a bigger and bigger impact not just in grassroots politics, but also in the biggest of Big Media.

So when you consider making a contribution to this site, consider the fact that your contribution will be helping develop and maintain that kind of infrastructure - it's important and I hope you'll donate here.