That’s how you embed a video?
Let me ask you this: Have you ever done an analysis of a lot of information, compiling a lot of different sources into one place? For instance, more information than you can do in one sitting so you need to save your draft copy, go fetch other information, save that, etc - you know, the formal writing process?
If so, how did you save your draft here on Free Republic, so you could come back to it later?
Where did you first go to publish any photos or documentation to the web so that you could link to it eventually on Free Republic?
If Free Republic is serious about this being a place for people to post original content it needs to have workable ways for serious writers to do these things.
The fact of the matter is that Free Republic is primarily set up for people to talk about and hash over what people are writing elsewhere. It’s no big deal when we’re linking to Dan Rather at CBS, which CBS also likes because they can earn advertising money from the hits which helps them to pay for Dan Rather’s salary. That’s how the business works. Why is that fine and dandy until you get somebody besides Dan Rather trying to get information out to the public?
No - and that's not the issue - and you know it.
"Let me ask you this: Have you ever done an analysis of a lot of information, compiling a lot of different sources into one place?"
Yup.
"- you know, the formal writing process?"
Oh, please enlighten me on where this "formal writing process" is laid out, chapter and verse.
"If so, how did you save your draft here on Free Republic, so you could come back to it later?"
Why on earth would I want to do that?
"Where did you first go to publish any photos or documentation to the web so that you could link to it eventually on Free Republic?"
Again, Why? You think something has to be published before it's published?
"If Free Republic is serious about this being a place for people to post original content it needs to have workable ways for serious writers to do these things."
Somehow, between my Desktop with it's 1TB drive and 1.5TB external, my Laptop with its 1.5TB drive, numerous thumbdrives, three e-mail servers and two word processing programs I think I'll be able to get by without a storage utility being available on FR.
"Why is that fine and dandy until you get somebody besides Dan Rather trying to get information out to the public?"
It's not fine and dandy for Dan Rather or anyone else in the MSM.
In fact, I happen to believe that their insistence on excerpts and links is a violation of Fair Use. But whether or not that is the case, it is certainly the result of hostility toward FR and our goals here.
So ask yourself this - Why should conservative bloggers and investigative journalists of the "New Media" show FreeRepublic that same hostility?
When Gunner, or other FReepers ask for full content here, they are paying the poster (blogger) a high compliment suggesting that the work may be worth having full exposure on FreeRepublic. You claim that your goal is to "get the information out to the public" (and I suppose extinguish those flames consuming the country.) So which do you suppose is more likely read in full - an article posted in full (with hotlinks to appropriate video at the original source) or a snippet directing the (wary) reader to an unknown blog?
Your notion that somehow the blog is on the giving end of this equation is beyond laughable.