But there's a corollary: The folks who want to read this stuff need to help fund me, because...somebody has to do it! All I'm looking for is a microdonation: $5 or $10 a year from each regular reader. That's just 43 cents or 86 cents a month! So if you value this site, send a check to me at POB 846, Ambler, PA 19002 or go to the Paypal button on the support page. (Don't forget to also go to the "Blast Me" link in the left column and get on the list to be notified about new posts on the site.)
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Sat, 09/15/2007 - 19:47 — dlindorff
Giving people an honest alternative source of news and commentary isn't easy and doesn't come cheap. Help support this site by subscribing or underwriting ThisCan'tBeHappening.net. To date, readers have sent just over $3000, far short of what is needed to keep this site as active as I'd like it to be.
Let me explain how it works: I am a full-time freelance journalist. Most places I write for pay little or nothing for my work. The Nation, for example, offers about $200 for a story that might take more than a week to report Buzzflash and Common Dreams pay nothing. I support my family by writing for business publications, which do pay reasonably well (though some of them are folding now as ad sales plunge). But all that writing for money eats up most of my available time, leaving almost nothing for ThisCantBeHappening.net. What I'd like to do is have the site generate sufficient support that I could devote full time to investigative reporting and digging out the news--the thing I'm good at. But to do that, I need your support. Even $5 a year--the price of a few cups of java, or about 43 cents a month-- from a few thousand of you, my regular readers, would do the trick.
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