Join HuffPost's OffTheBus and WNYC As An Investigative Reporter

This morning OffTheBus editor Marc Cooper and contributor Ethan Hova will be featured on WNYC Radio's "The Brian Lehrer Show," to announce the start of a joint journalism project between HuffPost's OffTheBus and WNYC, the nation's most-listened-to public radio station. Over the next week we're organizing OffTheBus readers and WNYC's listeners to collaborate on a story that we'll broadcast and publish on Thursday, November 15. The story? It's Ethan's brainchild, and an issue he began investigating when participating in our "Eyes On The Money: Investigating the 3rd Quarter FEC Reports" project.

Tune in this morning to learn more about what we'll investigate. Program details:
* 10 am Eastern at http://www.wnyc.org
* 93.9 FM/ 820 AM

An audio file of the program will be put online at WNYC and OffTheBus after the program ends.

If you'd like to join us, send an email to [e-mail] and put "WNYC" in the subject line.

If you're new to OffTheBus or haven't yet participated in one of our distributed reporting projects, we scope out the story in advance and provide the needed reporting tools. We also help organize the group as a whole so people don't duplicate each other's work. It makes taking on a large story in a short period of time easy. For example, last week we recruited eight OffTheBus researchers to figure out John Edwards' position in Iowa. Over the weekend the team called state chairs, grassroots organizers, and student leaders around the state, and also researched the Edwards campaign's performance over the last year. We aided in collecting peoples' research and answering editorial questions, and then Daniel Nichanian penned the final piece, "John Edwards' Alamo: An Inside Look at His Make-Or Break Iowa Campaign."

Comments

[Pole]

I have doubts that the Democratic machine will be able to see the White House next year and Congress hold a lot of Democratic seats. The reason I say that is because the Democrats tend to be ignorant in all the ways that Republicans are smart. When I was a young boy my father told me the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans are for Big Business and Democrats are for labor. He was a life long Democrat, by the way and worked hard all of his life to support his family. Kerry had an opportunity to go after the Swift Boat attackers. He did not. That was a clue. Gore had an opportunity as vice president to reverse the elections in the House. He did not. Democrats play by the Marcus of Queens bury rules and the Republicans play by the anything goes rules of the street.
Now I am going to suggest that each and every Democratic candidate and office holder adopt the following objective strategy. Define your opponent verbally and often. Republicans are the party of "PROPERTY OVER PEOPLE." Democrats are the party of "PEOPLE OVER PROPERTY." Its that simple. Now when someone asks what the Democrats mean by property the answer is Money, Holdings, Land, Investments, stocks and all manner of property. Lately its mostly money. When they ask who are the people. The answer is also simple, Most of the living people less the super rich- poor, middle class, young, old, working, retired.
Americans don"t know their own history, not alone World history. If they did they would know the Republicans have been very consistent about their priorities. Even before they called themselves by that title, they were the property owners, business owners, Industrialists, bankers and moguls of Industry. A few republican presidents have bucked that trend. They were either shot or became one term. The Democratic presidents, while fewer since the Civil War, were more populist in temperament. They tried to defend the working class and get people to work with living wages and fair working conditions, jobs.

[llozano]

I like reading and posting on this blog. But it is not real political action and at time it is not even progressive action. It is more like being an audience member of "American Idol;" I get to state my two cents but in the big picture it doesn't mean too much. The real change will take place on the streets by direct action and by voting until we elect candidates that have the courage to stand up and fight for what they and their constituents want and believe in. As for your bus, I can wait for the next one.

[waynesmyer]

To HuffPost's "Off The Bus": Please investigate the murder of Konstantino "Gus" Boulis . Check an out-dated story by Carl Hiassen, Miami Herald "Jack Abramoff: A Dirty Story"

Keywords: Adam Kidan, Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, Rep.Bob Ney,R-Ohio, Itilia Federicc, JEB Bush
Wayne Smyer

[waynesmyer]

What is the possibility of the Huffington Post doing an up-date report on the murder of Konstantino "Gus" Boulis and the theft of his eleven casino ships: Keywords: Sun-Cruz Casino Ships, Jack Abramoff, Adam Kidan, Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio.
"Gus" was a Greek national who was murdered in Florida and no one seem to give a shit! No news stories, on follow-up, no "investigative reporting" you would think that Arianna would be interested in doing an investigative report on the on the murder of a fellow Greek.
Wayne Smyer