Friends:

I know I’ve asked you to consider clicking here to subscribe to TMI to help us hire more journalists and do the kind of hard-hitting accountability reporting we are doing — and if just a few more of our free subscribers become supporting subscribers, we are going to have enough resources to do that. We are so tantalizingly close to being able to expand — so if you’ve thought about subscribing before, please click here and do it now.

But here’s another reason you may want to subscribe: we are adding some new exclusive features for our supporting subscribers, including our new interactive event tonight.

That’s right: at 7pm ET, we are going to be doing our first “Ask Me Anything,” where subscribers can log on and throw any questions they want at our team.

If you want to yell at us or interrogate us, go for it. If you want to challenge us on what we’ve reported, bring it on.

We really, really want to hear from our subscribers, because we are building a whole new model of journalism. This isn’t top-down corporate media — we are grassroots funded and we need subscriber input.

We are going to be doing more of these interactive events — so if you want to participate tonight, click here to become a subscriber and then log on at 7pm. Hope to see you tonight.

Rock the boat,

Sirota