Today is the official launch for a new progressive Internet magazine called The Gadflyer. It’s a publication likely to have an immediate impact and lasting influence on political journalism. I strongly recommend it.
The Gadflyer’s editors have already assembled a tremendous team of talented writers. The Editor-in-Chief is Paul Waldman, whom you may recognize from his bestseller, Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why The Media Didn’t Tell You. The Executive Editor is Tom Schaller, whose work I have cited here at The Carpetbagger Report several times, and whose prose you may have seen in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, Salon, and The American Prospect.
And if you’re a fan of Amy Sullivan’s Political Aims, The Gadflyer has incorporated her blog into the online magazine’s content.
In fact, The Gadflyer’s stable of talent is practically an embarrassment of riches. Among the contributing writers are Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (of Daily Kos fame), Kenny Baer, Mary Lynn F. Jones, Chris C. Mooney, and Noy Thrupkaew, to name a few.
The purpose of The Gadflyer is more than just serving as an outlet for thought-provoking commentary; it’s about, as Waldman put it, progressives “getting tough.”
This is an online publication that you’ll be hearing a lot about it in the coming weeks and months. It’s definitely worth checking out.