We need better information

This is already being done by a few of the bloggers.  HotAir.com has been linking to these stories routinely.  However, you are correct there is no full mechanism and no recognized credibility/credentials.

I've noticed that the traditonal journalists are increasingly relying upon others to do their researching job anyways and this will futher reduce thier jobs to become what they are now, the collectors of investigative news.

The problem will still be that these investigative websites will be labelled conservative by those that present the news.  But if they are good and balanced investigations, the labelling effect should be minimized.

Let the process begin!

I would state this slightly differently. Stories are started online with HuffPo and TPM. They are completed on TV and in the newspapers. We are playing in no part of that process. One of the reasons for that is that there is no reliable place to go for fact-based conservative perspective.

This is something that we could do now. There are enough talented reporters to start training and mentorship programs for more. These people could play in the news cycle. This would not necessarily require donors to dump money on "bloggers". Rather the people would be established journalists with records.

No doubt there should be a counterbalance to HuffPo, DailyKos, etc. and certainly the left has a headstart in establishing its turf. But are there really lots of talented reporters who would be willing to participate in a right-leaning Internet presence? Are there enough of them to report from all the locations where stories might originate? Are you suggesting that established reporters "moonlight" while working for a traditional media outlet?

The left has been battling the same issues over radio/talk show coverage for years.  Air America is a good start, but the right has such a foundation that much, much more will be needed.

The left needed an outlet, found it online, and has built a very strong foundation for itself.  I susbscribe to many liberal blogs, but have yet to be able to find many right blogs of the same quality.  (anything, and I mean ANYTHING, involving Malkin, Coulter, Drudge fails miserably)  I have found a few (Sullivan, NextRight), but I'd like to find more.

Any suggestions on any fact-based quality righty blogs out there that you want to give this diehard liberal (but fiscal centrist) would be greatly appreciated.

Money.  Huffington has lots of it and so do many of her liberal friends.  Its not an issue for them.  She can raise all she needs.  So can Soros and his Daily Kos. 

["The RightRoots must make a top priority of equip'ing vastly more of our sites with the reportorial and investigative skills required to dig up and present credible exposes, fact-based analyses and concrete news stories."]

Key word here is "investigative".  We have to investigate the left & MSM just as they investigate us. And report on them.  Believe me we'd find an almost infinite supply of juicy, factual news stories to report.  We need to follow them around, investigate their finances, look closely into their past.  Its time to let them know that in this world, if one lives in a glass house  one shouldn't throw rocks.   Problem is we don't have the money it'd take to build this sort of org or to pay for  the professional services/ resources necessary.  Deep investigations are needed to uncover much of the illegal  and sleazy activities of the left and MSM. 

So why don't we have the money?  I say that those conservatives out there with massive sums of cash are  unpatriotic.  They deserve only contempt.  I  respect Huffington and Soros even though I hate what they stand for.  Because they put their money where their mouth is.  Those moneyed few on "our" conservative side are far too cowardly to make any sort of stand for what they believe in.  I spit on them.  Darvin Dowdy

HuffPo may have started with money, just as Bill O'Reilly's site started with money behind it.  But the others (Daily Kos, Americablog, etc) pretty much started off as labors of love, with the blogger(s) working on their own time, with their own limited resources.  It was not until they got a following, a following built by supplying quality information, that they started getting donations and ad revenue.

So spit on your rich buddies if you want.  But to be effective, instead read the blogs, contribute to the good ones (fiscally if possible, and with your own worthwhile comments and analysis), and pass word on to others that "these blogs are good ones - read them."

as I've noted, the advantage the cyber Right has over the ossified Beltway GOP establishment is we all pretty much have real lives in real American communities; hence , we are more "reality based" than some of the pipe dreams and slick merchandizing from the DC professionals.

But someone like me--with a job, child, wife and mortgage---is not in a position to spend the day poring over paper records, hounding sources over the phone for tips or "off the record" quotes or tracking political opponents with a video camera.

That said, with all due respect, the sorts of people with the time to do that are going not have specific knowledge about some relevant issue areas that our citizen journalists have.  Now my forte of late has been Senator Dodd. http://thenextright.com/category/blog-tags/chris-dodd   Why?

a) there might be a hundred or so folks who know CT politics better than I do

b) there are thousands of people who know mortgage finance and foreclosure law better than I do.

c) Hardly any of them are the same person.

In order to explain Senator Dodd, you need to know both.  There's my added value.  And for a guy like this, there's enough open source stuff findable via search engines to provide a detailed look at the guy's agenda and missteps.   Not every newsworthy subject is gonna have this sort of thick paper trail, but plenty do.. 

So, in order that this endeavor not yield the same poorly reasoned work product that J-school grads have inflicted on major media, it is essential that we maintain the skill sets and grounding of the citizen journalists if sites likes these are augmented by paid reporters. The journalist profession may know news; but very few know economics. And it shows.