From Classical Values.
Good question! I'm trying to figure that out right now. . .I'm seeing some sites describing him as a founder and editor of CHB, but their own website gives this as their staff:
William D. McTavish
Editor & Publisher
Sarah Andrews
News Editor
Callie Houston
Features Editor
Sandra Riley
Ombudsman
Reporters
Terry Lawson
Andrew Taylor
Barrie Young
Researchers
Sallie Edwards
Mary Estil
This post from 2004 mentions the name of another editor "explaining" yet another fabrication from the site:
"Capital Hill Blue, by Chris M.", Aug. 5, 2004
"The modified version of the story that persons unknown chose to circulate by email was not the story we published," Capitol Hill Blue editor Teresa Hampton said today. . .
So do these other people actually exist, or are they other aspects of "Sibyl" Thompson's persona? If they're real people, what do they have to say about Mr. Thompson? I think a full-fledged investigation of Capitol Hill Blue is in order.
Here's a bio for Thompson--whether it's fact or fiction I don't know:
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. He developed other photo stories for the paper and a journalism career was born. . .
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 a 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. . . His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Esquire, Life, Look, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Paris Match, AFP, the Associated Press and Reuters.
During his stint at the House Committee on Science and Technology, Thompson worked on transfer of what was then DARPANet from the Department of Defense to the National Science Foundation, the beginnings of the Internet. Sensing the coming growth of the Internet, he started a web hosting and design company in 1994 and that same year launched Capitol Hill Blue as the web's first political news site.
BTW...you are missing THE 39 STEPS, right now, which is still a great movie, no matter how many times one sees it. :-)
Yes, looking through CHB there seem to be various other names - even Thompson might not be so bold as to make all of them up!! Still, I note that a huge proportion of the articles, almost all of the ones I've looked at just now, are merely re-posted from the AP. So I am getting the impression that aside from re-posting lots of newswire stories, much or all of the "original" content on the site may be a little bit TOO original, as in "Dougie Thompson made it up."???
From Classical Values.