A Public-Policy Expert Hits the Links
For Day 4 of Pledge Week, the value of NDAI's content curation
Trust me. I’m a professional.
It’s a thought that pops into my head quite often, as I assemble the links for Dowd’s Daily Download.
DDD’s birthdays and history factoids are interesting, I’m sure, and the quotes regularly elicit praise. But to me, the “value proposition” (ugh) is the link list provided in each edition.
The Internet is wonderful, yet great Caesar’s ghost there’s a lot of crapola out there. What’s credible? What’s nonsense? How can one tell the difference?
Well, 30 years in public-policy research helps. I’ve got that, but odds are, you don’t.
Every day, I draw on my experience and judgment to pick 15 valid, meaningful, and compelling articles, commentaries, studies, and audio/video that will help you better understand our world.
That’s not always easy to do. Many writers, think tanks, activist groups, and government entities are solid on some issues, but shaky on others. Also, several sources are dependable for data, but frighteningly off-base with the conclusions they reach from that data. Take The Pew Charitable Trusts. An “independent nonprofit organization,” it has the assets to conduct deep dives on important national and international affairs. But Pew’s Big Government, junk-science, redistributionist bias poses a challenge. When it publishes something rich in information, Pew makes the DDD cut. When it opines about “climate change” or “equity,” that’s a hard pass. (The same trouble exists on the right.)
Loyal subscribers probably notice that DDD’s links are light on gossip and fluff. And politics. I have very little interest in who’s winning the fundraising race, how the polls are shifting, who’s trying to topple someone in “leadership,” and which committee chairman is feuding with his ranking member.
That’s because I’m curious about the stuff that matters.
Demographics. Economics. Taxes. Regulation. Energy. Transportation. Education. Civil liberties. Space.
Subscribe to No Dowd About It, and you’ll receive 5,400 links a year — I skip Christmas, July 4th, New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Jefferson’s Birthday — on the stuff that matters. You’ll get only the highest quality in data, news, commentary, and analysis. Content that will make you a smarter investor. Advocate. Parent. Elected official. Candidate. American.
And you’ll get those 5,400 links for less than a quarter a day.
Sounds like a great reason to subscribe, doesn’t it?
You are uniquely brilliant in your way of putting together really interesting reads and info every day. Eddy gave up early even trying to come close to what you can do! In all the years I have been checking out blogs, yours is truly the BEST!! Jman
my account to kiva auto pay went through early Nov.
Did you get that or Eddy? And what do I get gor $100 .
pls remind
thank you
if it went to him then I gotta get on this.
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