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The easy part is creating the concept of an alternative. The problem is funding it.

My brilliant idea is creating a website called “Questions unasked” that thake the main articles of propaganda fed us by the MSM daily and giving voice to the questions the MSM SHOULD have asked, but didn’t.

Now that’s simple, informative, thought provoking...and utterly useless without financial backing to push it to ‘mainstream’ prominance. Then there’s developing a business model that would be able to function without relying on advertizing (that the libs can use as ‘pressure’ to kill it.

So even if you only had a staff of a few people, it’s still a 7 figure endeavor per year to promote it.

Then you have to promote it a lot to force it into the ‘mainstream’ of the net consciousness...

This and a thousand brilliant ideas of circumventing the MSM lack one thing. A Right Wing George Soros to fund them just like the media matters type groups.

Sucks, but that’s reality.

The easy part is creating the concept of an alternative. The problem is funding it.

You are correct to an extent.

The concept is not that easy, at least not the way I mentioned in my original post above.

The concept for an alternative has to be one that is not already out there, and I think I have the formula.

The funding is another good question, but, there have been many websites which have been started with minimum funding or no funding at all, and which have existed for months and sometimes years, without monetizing. In the end, if it's going to be as large as I envision it, it's going to have to be monetized sooner or later, and preferably sooner. Advertising will keep the site "free", or at least create the perception of it being "for free". Funding through private sources tends to politicize the process, and it might be less desirable than through regular advertising.

Promoting of the service doesn't have to start with large funding, or even any funding. Perhaps a few links here and there, and word-of-mouth will get people into the site, and hopefully, the popularity builds from there.

Like I hinted in my prior post, the website idea is not very difficult, and it could serve as an alternative to all other news/information/opinion sites. I already have a working model, but, like any other website, it's never finished and will need changes and improvements as it goes, but, for the most part, it's fairly "complete".