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26 March 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News SERIOUS FUNDRAISING, HERE AND NOW - Reader Supported News is surviving and maintaining services in the most challenging fundraising environment our organization has ever seen. But just barely. Today we ask for the support of all RSN readers who can afford to give. This will be a good fundraiser. Thanks to all in advance. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Jessica Valenti | When the Media Tries Too Hard to 'Appeal to Both Sides,' Integrity Is Lost  Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK Valenti writes: "The Atlantic's attempt at representing a 'broad spectrum of views' indicates a serious moral crisis in mainstream media." READ MORE People depart the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in Manhattan on Monday. (photo: Mike Segar/Reuters) ALSO SEE:  Russia Retaliates With Vow to Expel Dozens of Western Dipl...

03 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News FOCUS: James Risen | My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror    James Risen, The Intercept   Risen writes: "My case was part of a broader crackdown on reporters and whistleblowers that had begun during the presidency of George W. Bush and continued far more aggressively under the Obama administration, which had already prosecuted more leak cases than all previous administrations combined."   READ MORE My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror  was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years. The Obama administration was demanding that I reveal the confidential sources I had relied on for a chapter about a botched CIA operation in my 2006 book, “State of War.”...