Center for Online Investigative Research

Welcome. The members of our community care deeply about journalism. And we are worried. News organizations, especially television news, are increasingly constrained by economic, political, legal, and technological pressures. As a result, though we have more news from which to choose, a good many of us are ill-informed. And then there's the spin, the manipulation of the facts, that often leads news consumers away from the truth powers that be don't wish us to see.

We are a non-partisan organization. We invite volunteers to monitor and to report on the news they consume, applying the Society of Professional Journalists' Ethics Guidelines. Report violations here to hold the news media accountable. Ultimately, once our community has grown, we hope to raise funds to support quality journalism. If they claim to be fair and balanced, then let us together determine whether that is true.

In the coming days, I will comment on the news here -- providing you with my personal perspective. I worked as a television journalist for some twenty years for Fox, for CBS, UPN and for NBC. I made plenty of mistakes during my twenty years of reporting, but I never stopped believing that ultimately I was reporting to serve in the public interest.