[BlackVeil]

Although the style of the journal is relevant, I don't count anything out solely on those grounds. In my own research on the history of crime, several journals which can only be described as rags played an important role (Le Nouveau Detective, in the French language on the Dutroux Affair, and the Illawarra Mercury, in Australia, on police corruption scandals on the NSW south coast.) These papers sometimes carry important stories which the more respectable won't touch.

[doug from upland]

I don't disagree and hope they stay on the story. I was simply giving an assessment of the rag in general.

[ForGod'sSake]

These papers sometimes carry important stories which the more respectable PC won't touch.

Now. This underground rumbling has been going on ever since the OKC bombing. I don't have a clue if there's anything to it, but I have little trust in the integrity of our Federal caretakers and less trust in the integrity of our "news" agencies. The fact that it was picked up by the WSJ is interesting and a little surprising. I'm not sure what to make of it; where there's smoke, there's fire???

FGS

[VOA]

These papers sometimes carry important stories which the more respectable won't touch.

As a transplant to West Los Angeles from Oklahoma, I've found that if I really want to
read decent investigative reporting in the press, here is how I rank the local rags:
1. NewTimesLA, a free weekly "rag". They've been all over Cardinal Mahoney and the
cover-up of predatory priests long and hard...put that real rag called The Los Angeles
Times to shame. NewTimesLA might be infested with adverts with scantily-clad models and
lots of the different lifestyles of Los Angeles, but the investigative reportage is
pretty hard-edge and fair, whether they are tracking down the pecadillos of priests,
looking behind the mask of Scientology, or reporting on LAPD hijinks (as well as
praising LAPD officers who've done the right thing, to the displeasure of supervisors).

2. LA Weekly is a distant second to NewTimesLA, but does have a shining moments now and then.

3. Third place is for just about any other Los Angeles-area newspaper, except for
The Los Angeles Times, which I give:

4. Last Place.

But for coincidences...
I wonder if this OKC motel was also popular with some of the Jihad conventioneers
that Steven (Jihad In America) Emerson stumbled onto in downtown OKC on Christmas Day, 1993?

Now that would be a hoot...finding out that one motel in OKC had been a favored haunt
for a band of Jihadists, McVeigh, Nichols, and Iraqui agents...let alone Moussouai,
yet for Atta and his buddy "there was no room at the inn".

[TigersEye]

In my own research on the history of crime, several journals which can only be described as rags played an important role (Le Nouveau Detective, in the French language on the Dutroux Affair, and the Illawarra Mercury, in Australia, on police corruption scandals on the NSW south coast.) These papers sometimes carry important stories which the more respectable won't touch.

By 'more respectable' I assume you mean mainstream media papers. Or Corporate Media papers owned and controlled by international corporate businesses who also own shares, perhaps, in the Federal Reserve Bank? Who also own controlling shares in AP, Reuters, etc, etc.

That lamestream Corporate Media has got the news I trust, yesiree.