Check out this article on American Thinker yesterday. Although it has nothing to do with Refugee Resettlement per say, it has everything to do with it. Author Randall Hoven begins with a quote from longtime journalist Marvin Kalb in which Kalb claims the internet will damage journalism’s ability to perform professionally. Hoven then goes on to list 62 cases of journalistic malfeasance, many of which were exposed by people (non-journalists!) on the internet.
Refugee Resettlement Watch has been up since July 1 and we have had thousands of visitors. And, as far as we know, there is no other source for information about how this program works (other than the government’s own). It appears that no journalist ever goes beyond the “Somalis see first snow!” type of story. We hope we are helping Americans have a better understanding of this community-changing program of the federal government. Damaging journalism? My foot!