"There are certain stories like the U.S. attorneys that might never have seen the light of day had T.P.M. not pursued it in the way that they had. ... We now count on T.P.M. and other blogs to do the investigative work that reporters used to do."
Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, in the NYTimes piece covering Joshua Michael Marshall of Talking Points Memo winning the George Polk Award.