Comments on: How to Save Democracy, the Press and the Legal Profession http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/09/technology-u-how-to-save-democracy-the-press-and-the-legal-profession/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Wed, 23 May 2012 19:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/09/technology-u-how-to-save-democracy-the-press-and-the-legal-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-3434 Glynn Wilson Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:18:19 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=4799#comment-3434 Another piece of the puzzle: By supporting this site and others like it, you get the kind of coverage you would like to see that corporate, chain newspapers and corporate sponsored local TV news stations cannot and will not do. This support must come in the form of advertising from non-compromised sectors of the economy. Some old news outlets have taken the non-profit path and rely on foundation grants, such as Harper's magazine. But even they take ads from oil companies and the like. We don't. Here you get news with principles. If this is not supported, where are Americans going to turn for the kind of press envisioned in the First Amendment? Another piece of the puzzle: By supporting this site and others like it, you get the kind of coverage you would like to see that corporate, chain newspapers and corporate sponsored local TV news stations cannot and will not do. This support must come in the form of advertising from non-compromised sectors of the economy.

Some old news outlets have taken the non-profit path and rely on foundation grants, such as Harper’s magazine. But even they take ads from oil companies and the like.

We don’t. Here you get news with principles. If this is not supported, where are Americans going to turn for the kind of press envisioned in the First Amendment?

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