Greetings readers and fans. As you know, I’ve been covering the BP oil spill for the past three months, and working for several years on ways to fund the alternative, independent Web Press in the South.

A number of readers have expressed an interesting in helping, and some have mailed checks and made online contributions through our PayPal Donate button link.

We’ve been in talks for several months with David Cohn, the founder of Spot.us in San Francisco, the first online organization that came up with a business model and a Web interface to fund the kind of investigative journalism that has been falling by the wayside since newspapers suffered drastic budget cutbacks due to the Bush recession.

In the past couple of days, Spot.Us approved our pitch to experiment with raising online cash to help fund our efforts to continue covering the aftermath of BP’s massive Gulf oil spill, now that the mainstream media has lost interest in the story and the cable news helicopters have gone back to New York, Washington and Atlanta.

The effects of this spill will be around for weeks, months, years and maybe even decades, and we believe the story should continue to stay atop the news agenda.

Many readers have asked us how they can help. Here’s a very real opportunity for YOU to HELP for FREE! See below…

With just 5 clicks on a computer screen and a few minutes of your time, you can help fund our reporting without having to spend one red cent!

Here’s how.

1. Go to my pitch on Spot.Us at this link.

2. Click the “Earn Credits” button you see on the right side of the page.

3. Registering is easy and not so intrusive.

4. Take the quick survey on objective journalism. (Many of you have read what I have to say about this over the past five years, so don’t hesitate to say what is needed is a science-based definition of objectivity, not the Fox News slogan).

5. Make sure you confirm you want to give the credits to my pitch.

For every person who fills out the survey, $5 will be credited to the cause of funding my work on this story.

See how easy that was?

Now spread the word on your e-mail lists and Facebook pages, and we can begin to change the world, $5 at a time. As always, thanks for your support.

Glynn Wilson
Editor & Publisher
The Locust Fork News-Journal

http://www.locustfork.net/

http://blog.locustfork.net/

Tags: Note to Readers: Spot.Us Pitch for Gulf Health Story Approved

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