Talk:Roll Call

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 * Plagiarism **

This article's 1st paragraph is entirely plagiarized from. Stevenmitchell (talk) 02:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Advert tag
Is this an encyclopedia article or a PR piece? Unreferenced opinions like "If you need to know Congress, you need Roll Call," cherry-picked quotations from readers, and section headings like "The Roll Call story" make it read like the latter. There are no references given that aren't affiliated with the company and this casts doubt on the credibility of anything in the article. Please rewrite the article with material from independent sources. Sources affiliated with the company should only be used to provide pertinent facts and not as evidence of notability or the merits of the newspaper.--RDBury (talk) 01:01, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This issue has been addressed. Thanks. --RDBury (talk) 12:12, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Business model?
How does Roll Call make money? If it has paying subscribers, who is the target audience? --JHP (talk) 02:13, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ahh. I found my answer. Advertising by companies trying to influence Congress. --JHP (talk) 05:55, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

A user's contention that "Roll Call" is an advocacy group and a blog
In an edit summary (23:50, 31 August 2015‎) to the Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute article, you wrote: "'Roll Call' is an advocacy group and this source is a blog. Not a WP:RS". You may want to take a closer look at this article (Roll Call) before you make that rather ill-founded assumption. --- Professor JR (talk) 09:36, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Roll Call conducts no advocacy itself, which you apparently missed, and certainly exists in printed form, not just on-line, or as just a non-WP:RS blog as you contended. Here's how Roll Call characterizes itself on its website (with which, after actually looking at and reading a printed copy, I would have to agree): "With the largest press corps on Capitol Hill, CQ Roll Call has earned a reputation for delivering comprehensive, accurate and objective congressional reporting. We help you track and understand the people, the politics and the process — and how these forces affect your interests. Moreover, CQ Roll Call provides an innovative array of channels to reach Capitol Hill, empowering private citizens and power players alike with the ability to position their message in front of members of Congress and their staff." ( cf .) — Professor JR (talk) 10:10, 2 September 2015 (UTC)