Announcements -- Chef's Specials!



Yearly Kos
Before "dinner" drinks...From Timroff:

I will definitely hosting the Happy Hour on Friday Night from 6 - 8 pm in my room in the Riviera.

Tim has also graciously offered to man our exhibit each morning until noon, if need be. Those of you who have offered your help, thank you again. Here are the confirmed Exhibit Hours:

Exhibit Move in: Friday, June 9th (9:00 am – 1pm)
Exhibits open: Friday, June 9th 1pm - 5:30p
Saturday, June 10th 9:30 – 5:30
Sunday, June 11th 9:30 – 5:30
Exhibit Move Out, Sunday, June 11th 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm.

We are most concerned with filling the Friday and Saturday afternoon hours. A separate mail message to coordinate table times will be going out to those of you who expressed interest in helping.

Rba's "Un-News" roundup
Tasty appetizers! Rba has an ongoing daily "Un-News" thread on the Community where folks can post links and snippets of articles and news that are important, but somehow slipped beneath the radar. Check out what he is doing and post your links and news. His commentaries go up at the beginning of each day.

Welshman's News Agency
As a main course, Welshman's focusing on a different type of news digging than we've been doing. His explanation and call for volunteers is here

Brian Keeler's run for NY State Senate
As a side dish, if you haven't heard, Nybri is running for state senate in New York. He sent us this announcement to include in the newsletter with his request for help.

"After clacking away at the keyboard for ePluribus Media, Political Cortex and DailyKos, NYBri, one of our founders, has decided to leave behind his trusty mac and make his way to the front lines of the real battle...and run for the New York State Senate."
Visit Keeler2006.com, and join the campaign. He's looking for tech help, volunteers, contributions and plain old ePM support.

Sightings -- Desserts!



Below are just a few of the traditional print media that have referenced some of the well researched and written works you guys have been producing.

• Chronogram requested permission to reprint D.E.Ford's stunning Blaming the Veteran Series, originally printed on the ePluribus Media Journal.


• Fox News interviewed ilona Meagher for its Vets' Mental Health Needs Intensify which provides a link to the ePluribus Media PTSD timelines for which so many of you have been sending links and data.


• California Awareness links to our Citizen Journalism Toolbox (in the upper right menu)... with this intro:

  The watchdog project offers those interested in monitoring the sunshine levels of local government agencies an opportunity to do so and report, as citizen journalists, in an online chronicle and forum supported by CalAware.

• Over at AmericaBlog, John Avarosis links to the ePluribus Media Journal's plagiarism feature in his report on the Bloggers Panel.
• And our favorite comment over at the Orange Mothership by Musing Graze [Thanks, Musing Graze!].
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Let us know if you see others... send sightings on to Editors@epluribusmedia.org

Stories, research and April doings



April Journal Stories You May have Missed:

• BarbinMD's analysis -- The Smoking Gun Waas (not) Forgot(ten) revisit to what was left in the 2003 State of the Union Speech and but taken out of the October 2002 Cinncinati address.
  
• D.E. Ford's interview with Congressman Mel Watt.
• Kay Shepherd continues the podcast interviews with one of Ilona on her PTSD Resources.

And Nutritious April commmentaries at the Community site ...

• Terri Emerick has begun writing commentaries on health care, zooming in on issues of MediCare and the cuts that are costing Americans ... even their lives. See her first two entries here and here.
• LandofEnchantment's movie posters are more than dessert! Check out the entire series -- LofE serves up so much more than Pombo.
• Greyhawk's Danse Macabre series is crucial... we must wake up: Here are the links to the first and second in the series.
• wmtriallawyer gives us Hey Congress! Might as Well Face It, You're Addicted to Oil (and we're not talking salads!).
• Polydactyl pays a moving tribute to Remembering David Bloom, the MNBC reporter on the ground in Iraq who died April 6, 2003.
• Jeff Huber continues his amazing analysis of the run up to the Iraq War as well as the tenuous legal grounds for much of this administration's activities -- index of Jeff Huber commentaries.
• Lefty Limblog gives us photos of the Unwelcome Bush event in Napa.
• JimStaro and ilona has contributed many sources where readers can find help for Veterans and for PTSD suffers.
• Avahome, in addition to doing great research, keeps us supplied with Beauty for our Souls.
• Great new commentaries on the community site include those by m suskind, RenaRF, Renee in Ohio, txj, XicanoPwr, Duke1676, Grey Hawk , Captain Future, Southern Dem , NyBri, wanderindiana, Timroff, avahome, jeninRI, bewert, populistamerica, Intranets, rba, josh nelson, Jeff Huber, Aaron Barlow, BarbinMD, Luaptifer, Timroff, standingup, Welshman, susie dow, silence, Kfred.
• Gratitude to those who worked behind the scenes during April.
• Proof readers and copy editors, Lilnubber, BeverlyinNH, Cedwyn, Sue in Kentucky, Vivian and Nancelot.
• Folks responsible for getting the copy and art created and put on the Journal -- Stoy, Roxy, and standingup.
• Folks getting the crossposts handled on Kos, MyLeftWing, Booman -- standingup and jenniri.
• Podcasts and transcriptions -- Kay Shepherd, standingup, 4fx
• Fact checkers -- avahome, susie dow, wanderindiana, silence, luaptifer, standingup, jeninri.
• story editors -- kfred, susie dow, cache, reddan, jeff huber, rba, and D.E.Ford.
Please let us know if someone has been overlooked!

Coming Soon




Many of you researchers and writers, fact checkers, proofreaders and copyeditors have been working on two stories that we hope will be on the Journal in May.

• The first piece in Susie Dow's Missing Man series that she's been researching for over a year
• The first report investigation into the internet threads that Luaptifer and txj have been following, also for over a year

Finally, if you like what we've been doing, don't be shy about volunteering to help with YearlyKos, the timelines, editing, fact-checking, creating graphics for stories, writing book reviews, or just participating in the Community site by posting commentaries or comments. And of course, consider donating to keep the servers humming. If you have a tip, please submit it to leads@epluribusmedia.org.

If you have a story you'd like to submit for publication as an ePluribus Media article in the Journal (as opposed to posting as a commentary on Community), submit it to editors@epluribusmedia.org. For information and some guidelines, check out the submissions guidelines.

And don't forget, if you have any book buying planned, consider Powell's. Clicking through the Powell's bookstore ad at the bottom of the home page on the ePMedia Community site gives us 7.5%!

You make the "us" in ePluribus Media a reality.