Center for Online Investigative Research

concern about the depth and breadth of news coverage and political participation

Beth Wellington is a Roanoke, Virginia-based poet and journalist. She is a contributing editor to the New River Free Press, a book reviewer for The Roanoke Times and a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) and the Appalachian Studies Association. From 1980 to 1997, she was the founding Executive Director of New River Community Sentencing, Inc. in Christiansburg, Virginia and its predecessor, New River Community Action's Community Sentencing Program. She contributes to both SourceWatch.org and Wikipedia.org. You can find her commentary and book reviews at LLRX.com and her blog on culture and politics, The Writing Corner, http://360.yahoo.com/beth_blog.