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This has piqued my curiosity. Anyone know what is involved in starting a newspaper?


10 posted on 08/04/2004 5:02:50 AM PDT by babyface00
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To: babyface00

I been posting this for months now. Everyone said that FNC would not work and not has it worked, but is a bigger than both CNN and MSNBC combined.

We need a conservative USA Today type of national paper. What we do is we have all these conservative groups from around the country that are starting up their own papers as reporters and they submit articles daily. What the AP and Reuters reports, the articles are actually edited correctly to present the event in a fair and balanced perspective. Editorials remain conservative.

We are slowly getting there. Like the Marxists we need better organization and a fixed goal and timeframe to do this. A guy like Murdoch I am sure would be an investor.

Once this is in place, You now go after the big boys at the local level. We can win the media war. We muct win it. That is the only way we can change this country, by changing the information.



11 posted on 08/04/2004 5:17:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("John Kerry does not want to lead this country, he wants to be president.")
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To: babyface00
In the 60s, we had radical leftwing, counterculture newspapers in every major urban area.

You need people who can investigate, report and write. You need photographers (can be the same people). You can now do layout on a computer. You don't even need office space with the internet.

You need people to sell ads and someone who knows how to do layout (again: there are programs you can use to do layout). You need to find a printer unless you have access to a laser printer (desktop printer ink runs when wet).

You need distribution. Today, you may need secure areas for this, as leftists will destroy conservative papers if they can.

In the 60s, we used psychedelic art to attract readers. this was also a detriment, as some of the papers were artistic, but impossible to read.

Do a search on Underground Newspapers. Some names I recall: The Seed (Chicago); Kaleidoscope (Milwaukee); Milwaukee Bugle American (paper I worked for....more centntrist than radical and did actual reporting and no psychedelia).

Newsletter experience and a program for their layout will cover most of the technical basics. The rest takes talent and an advertising, distribution and audience base. You can also distribute a paper free, if the ads and classifieds cover the costs.
13 posted on 08/04/2004 5:57:10 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Proud Bush-Cheney04 volunteer)
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