Posted on 05/08/2012 3:35:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
We can’t rely on the media, even the alternative media. Free Republic is announcing a new initiative that gives you a platform. We want to leverage the most powerful minds on the right to make a difference. To do this, we want to bring a new level of activism, the citizen investigator. In the spirit of 1750’s The Pennsylvania Gazette published by Ben Franklin and of Andrew Breitbart.
For the longest time, our primary focus has been on looking at what the media presents and investigating it or discussing it. We have been missing something, YOU!
Jim has created a new news category, “FReeper Editorial” (freepered) for you to post your investigative reports. We are working on getting this promoted to a sidebar and other ways to promote your work but here are the basics.
No longer will quality vanities posted in this topic be frowned upon. Free Republic needs to become about you. We are tired of waiting for the media to come around to us, it is time we take our many, many members and become an army. What was once was your vanity is now your megaphone.
To do this right, we need your help. Initially, we are trying to have this as a smooth launch, and creating the new news category is a baby step towards something big. We ask just a few things.
Stay tuned for more change, enhancements, and opportunities that go along with this. - Your friendly neighborhood Mod Squad with blessings of the big dog himself. We are not quite legion, but we are a bag of kittens.
Love it. Finally FR grants serious conservatives with research or knowledge or ideas equality with MSM article posts!
These are not “vanities.”. This is conservative activism. Let’s roll.
How about this?
We let the same ‘rules’ govern all threads (well... except for the Smoky Backroom).
And let PEER REVIEW determine a thread’s success.
And let the Viking Kitties ZOT any bogus entries.
And no whining if YOUR THREAD is removed.
Well, you know my opinion regarding people who cannot stomach frank talk.
Awesome! Freepers rule!
Not good. In this day and age the moment you hit post, google has got it, and it will never go away.It will come back and haunt you.
Amen.
I have two investigative pieces I wrote 8 years ago that apply today. I may have to dust those off.
Thank you Jim.
To know that there is at least one other MAN out there that will put his name on it, and makes that stand, really means now that there are 2!
I include Laz on this, not to speak specifically for him, but in a comparison study (I laugh), I would make that 3.
I’ll see your 2 and raise you 9 chapters from my ongoing book project ;)
Better here than buried in an E-book.
“Thinking Critically”
Doublespeak, Magical Thinking and the lack of critical thought that led us down the rabbit hole
This is so right on that you would be the catalyst for the change. Long time freepers rock. Now to find your article.
You sure are trying to get my goat recently. How about taking me off your ping preferences. Not interested.
If I’m posting on this sidebar, I would have no problem putting my real name on it.
I’m eager to see your work, Norm.
bump for later
Ok jim, you answered me and I answered you back. You have pinged me a dozen times today, Would you rather say someone had intimate relation, or do you prefer they hooked up and had a good $%@ck. I f you are going to present these artcles to the public as a product of FR, a conservative website, I think you should reconsider. If not, it would make us no better than a supermarket tabloid or even a faction of the westboro church.
I can freepmail you the roughs I have so far if you like. The main problem in writing it is that daily, there are more ludicrous examples coming out of the MSM and DC than what I have already written and used for examples. ;)
Just a few tweaks and it’s doable as an ongoing article series though.
{This really is just for news articles that would be breaking news worthy.
NOT for religion, history, UFOs, philosophy, pets, midgets, ponies, or jokes.}
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