Editing Talking Points Memo (section)

==Reception==
[[Robert W. McChesney]] and [[John Nichols (journalist)|John Nichols]] describe the site as taking a "more raucous and sensational" tone than traditional news media. This includes coining phrases such as "Bamboozlepalooza" to describe [[George W. Bush]]'s efforts to [[Social Security debate in the United States|privatize Social Security]], which the blog opposed;<ref name="PublicAffairs">{{cite book|title=The Death and Life of American Journalism|last1=McChesney|first1=Robert W.|last2=Nichols|first2=John|publisher=[[PublicAffairs]]|year=2010|isbn=978-1-56858-700-4|page=91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g85l-l-CnbIC&pg=PA91}}</ref> and "bitch-slap politics" to refer to the [[Swiftboating]] of 2004 presidential candidate [[John Kerry]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marshall |first1=Josh |title=Well it seems there |url=https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/--97767? |website=Talking Points Memo |date=19 August 2004 |publisher=TPM Media |access-date=January 8, 2023}}</ref>

McChesney and Nichols compare the site's style to the [[muckraking]] of [[Upton Sinclair]]. The more social aspects of the site, which invite [[crowdsourcing]], were compared to ''[[La Follette's Weekly]]''.<ref name="PublicAffairs"/> [[Tom Rosenstiel]], director of the [[Project for Excellence in Journalism]], in 2009 said "''TPM'' is really an advocacy operation that has moved toward journalism."<ref name=AJR-2009/>

Guest bloggers have included [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Robert Reich]], [[Dean Baker]], [[Michael Crowley (journalist)|Michael Crowley]], and, briefly, vice-presidential candidate [[John Edwards]]. Beginning in the summer of 2006, many weekend postings were provided by [[anonymous blogger]] ''DK''. On November 11, 2006, ''DK'' was revealed to be attorney David Kurtz, who now posts openly under his name.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In 2007, ''TPM'' won a [[George Polk Award]] for Legal Reporting for its coverage of the 2006 [[2006 dismissal of U.S. attorneys|U.S. Attorneys scandal]], becoming the first online-only outlet to receive the award.<ref>{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/24/business/blogger.php|title=A Web-only news operation gets its due|work= [[International Herald Tribune]]|date= February 24, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318035209/http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/24/business/blogger.php|archive-date=March 18, 2008}}</ref>