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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (107768)	8/27/2005 12:29:07 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Doug Thompson actually is a journalist, and has won some prizes in his field. He insists that his online journal, capitalhillblue.com is not partisan, and that he doesn't publish anything that is not confirmed by two different sources. Do you have some proof that George Bush is an emotionally healthy, well-balanced and kind man who does not use a lot of profanity? Or that his failures in Iraq are not driving him to lash out? To me it is just as likely that what Thompson is reporting is true. We really don't know, and so to argue either position is sort of an exercise in writing a lot and surmising and wasting a good bit of time (all very popular pasttimes at SI). Here is Thompson's bio: Doug Thompson Publisher Blue Doug Thompson realized the value of capturing history 46 years ago as a 10-year-old schoolboy in Farmville, Virginia, when the community, caught up in a fight over integration, closed the public schools and opened an all-white private school. Thompson wrote about his experiences and submitted his story and photos to The Farmville Herald,the local newspaper. His article and photos were picked up by other newspapers around he country. He developed other photo stories the paper and a journalism career was born. When his family relocated to the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Floyd, the 14-year-old Thompson took his photographs and stories to Pete Hallman, editor of the weekly Floyd Press. Hallman encouraged the young man to continue writing and taking photos, teaching him the ins and outs of the newspaper business. Thompson went on to join the staff of The Roanoke Times where he covered the police beat, emerging racial turmoil in the city and tackled other tough subjects. His story about a young girl who obtained an abortion (illegal at the time) won the top feature writing award from the Virginia Press Association. Another, about street racers in the city, won another feature writing award while his coverage of the murder of a Southwest Roanoke couple and the abduction and rape of their teenaged daughters brought the top news writing award from the association After moving on to The Telegraph in Alton, Illinois, Thompson continued to win awards for writing and photography, capturing the Illinois Associated Press Managing Editors top prizes for news, feature and column writing as well as first place awards from the Illinois Press Association. Thompson took a sabbatical from newspapers in 1981 and moved to Washington and work on Capitol Hill but escaped from the dark side and returned to journalism. As a writer and photographer, Thompson's work has appeared in a number of publications, including Esquire, Life, Look, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Paris Match, AFP, the Associated Press and Reuters. Thompson launched Capitol Hill Blue as the web's first political news site, in 1994. The site continues today as the oldest news site on the Internet. Besides Blue, he publishes a number of other web sites, including Blue Ridge Muse and D.C. Darkside. He owns Blue Ridge Creative, a photography, video production and digital imaging company in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 2001, Thompson and his wife launched the Our America project, a 10-year program to document the first decade of the new century through videos, photography and written essays. Despite his success in new media, Thompson remains a newspaperman at heart and lives by the creed that it is the role of a newspaperman to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." capitolhillblue.com