''Capitol Hill Citizen'' is a monthly English-language

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. It was founded in the United States in 2022 by longtime consumer advocate

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Overview

''Capitol Hill Citizen'' was founded by Ralph Nader in 2022 as a print-only publication due to his belief that "online is a gulag of clutter, diversion, ads, intrusions, and excess abundance". Its editor is Russell Mokhiber. It costs and is delivered by

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mail. It is funded by subscriptions and a subsidy from the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. Its motto, "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight", is intended as a jab at what ''Politico''s Ian Ward described as ''The'' ''Washington Post''s "self-important motto Democracy Dies in Darkness". According to ''

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'', the paper's reporting features the "unapologetic muckraking that first propelled Nader into the national spotlight" and ''Capital & Main'' describes its content as a "deeply informed focus on how power corrupts". Subjects have included inquiries into ''Politico ''and its parent company

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's relationship with advertisers, reporting on ties between the

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and

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, a feature on the 2022 workplace death of

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employee Steven Dierkes, an interview with ''

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''s culture editor Emily Jashinksy, an interview with former

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Chas W. Freeman Jr., an interview with

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, an editorial criticizing

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, a

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of the "top ten corporate crime books of 2022", and a column on a "dark money operation

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captures and controls the Supreme Court".

Reception

Chris Lehmann of ''

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'' magazine said, "Ralph Nader's newspaper is a salvo against D.C. media nda welcome throwback to a more adversarial model of legislative coverage". He said it has a "citizens-first mission ... with an unapologetically sharp-elbowed approach o itsuphill quest to practice real and consequential journalism in an age of vacuous clout-chasing". He observed that the byline credit of "Citizen Staff" in roughly half the newspaper's articles poses "an additional liability" because this "quasi-anonymous" status is desirable against

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but contradicts the mission of transparency and limits critical discussion in public.

References

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Overview

Reception

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