I agree that linking to Raising Kaine is not the best approach for George Allen.

I like the various articles that people have mentioned above on Allen, but I think the best summary of all the various controversies is the WikiPedia entry for Allen, which is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Alle n_(politician)

Focusing on Allen (R-Va.) is important. There's an on-line article today from "National Journal's Telecom Update" that is entitled "Telecom, Cable Interests Channel Donations To Republican Incumbents." The story has this paragraph:

    Allen has received $260,132 in PAC money from the tech sector this cycle -- more than any senator up for re-election. NAB, NCTA, Siebel Systems and VeriSign each contributed $10,000 to Allen.

There's lots more good background information in the article. It's at: http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/tel co/live/tb-OKES1155672762163.html

Another place to contact might be the NPR "On the Media" program (see: http://onthemedia.org/). They do some good pieces analyzing and criticizing poor-quality journalism, and why it happens.  

One addition on Goodstein, concerning his media appearances as a "Democratic strategist," which I've seen mentioned in postings on a couple of blogs. He's appearing tomorrow (Sunday) morning on a local, D.C.-area program on Channel 7 (ABC)
called "Capital Sunday." I called this station this morning (Saturday), and they said the program for tomorrow has already been taped.

I think it's worth contacting the program and asking why they're featuring an analyst who acts like Goodstein has in Connecticut. If they want to have him back on the program, he ought to come back and explain his conduct of this week.

More information on the "Capital Sunday" program is at: http://www.capitalsunday.com/

You can share your thoughts about Mr. Goodstein with the program at:

"Capital Sunday"
WJLA-TV
1100 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 703-236-9552
Email: shoutout@capitalsunday.com

Before I found your very helpful diary, I prepared a diary on DailyKos ("Nuts and Bolts: Community Organizing Books that Work"). It's at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/23/ 121822/890

I've focused just on books (both on-line and print ones), with some suggestions on ways to use the books themselves for community organizing, and how to find a book that best meets your particular needs.

I like your listing of criteria. Can I add one other, and give an example I think is really good?

I think diary writers should encourage readers to get away from the keyboard from time to time and interact with other people in the non-computer world.

My nomination for a very good posting today on that was
"YOU MAGGOTS MAKE ME SICK!" by wmtriallawyer on DKos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/19/ 143526/621). It encouraged people to sign up for the nationwide DNC precinct walking on April 29. Of the people voting in the poll with the diary, 58% said they had already signed up or would do so.

I also liked the humor in the posting.

Since you mentioned DFA resources, here's a suggestion that I think is worth pulling out from a response by Fran for Dean from one of the DKos "Nuts and Bolts" postings:

DFA Night School
DFA is running a 4-week long series called "DFA Night School."  Each week they have a conference call / powerpoint presentation about a different topic - canvassing, messaging, volunteer recruitment, phonebanking.  If you are unable to participate in any of them, they put up the presentation with audio online afterwards.  

More info is at:
http://www.dfalink.com/group.php?id=1118

I agree that the O'Connor speech has received virtually no coverage. However, the "Washington Post" did have a piece on Friday ("Ginsburg  Faults GOP Critics, Cites a Threat from Fringe") that mentioned O'Connor's speech and discussed similar concerns by Ginsburg.

One explanation I heard about the lack of pick-up of the NPR report mentioned several factors, including: 1) reporters for the major media prefer to do exclusives; they don't like to do stories based on another journalist's reporting and 2) this tendency is even more true for print journalists not liking to use material based on a radio report. Pretty sad excuses, I think, in a story as important as this one.