[sparklite2]

How did the conservative New York Sun work out?

[IChing]

Um....no. There are a gazillion of online alternatives to Zuckerburkha and Gargoyle, all interactive and light years ahead of paper-print media. Sheesh. Print media is almost dead.

[Secret Agent Man]

Why would conservative media want to follow a dinosaur, outdated, planet-hostile, throwaway, dying news model?

[Smokin' Joe]

Facebook can't censor me.

I don't go there.

[nathanbedford]

As one who lives in Germany and comments regularly concerning the dangers of unrestrained immigration I am frankly concerned that not only might my comments be censored but that I might face prosecution.

I am too old and too crusty a conservative to curb my tongue now on issues which are vital to the survival of Western democracy but there is not the tradition of free speech here that exists in America. So far, Free Republic has slipped under the radar.

However just because I live where the printing press was invented, I do not believe that the answer to heavy-handed censorship by the government in league with big-league Internet players is to reverse to 16th-century technology. The power of social media to adapt is demonstrably superior to the power of creaking democracies to censor. The answer, like the answer for inappropriate speech, is more technology.

[kingu]

I will be honest, since I’ve been down this route, the biggest issue is the cost of mailing out the newspaper. Local distribution is easy peasy, and I’ve done pony express relay distribution (such as getting it out to the Inland Empire, and someone takes it from there on to Vegas and Pheonix, etc.

THAT said, pony express distribution works. And it is generally easy to find locations who don’t care if there’s a paper sitting there for people to pick up.

You’re looking at roughly $3,000 overhead per week per 10,000 copies. If you aim for 100,000 copies per week, that’s a $30,000 bill each month for the first few months until you can start getting advertising revenue in. Most advertisers pay 2 months behind publishing.

[KarlInOhio]

Fortunately there has never in world history been a printing press that has been shut down or destroyed by a government or an angry mob.< /s>

[enduserindy]

I deleted my facebook account for ridiculous censorship policies. I don’t see a printed paper as a good idea moving forward. I think a better idea would be “Freepbook’”