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You could advertise in my college newspaper and it wouldn't cost very much.

I will have to look at our rates, but I am co-editor and needless to say, I got enough stuff to worry about on such an extremely small publication and so the more ads I can get before school starts, the more I will feel relieved.....lol.

And hey, it would be helping FR out.

BTW, the college paper is printed in the local town paper, so you will reach a bunch of rural Kansans with it, not just the campus.

If interested, Freepmail me and I will try to get into the student government office so I can figure out what the heck our rates are and how to bill you etc.

Jim:
Given that the whole point of FR is to publicize conservative opinion and patriotism, how much consideration has been given to having a fundraising thread for the purpose of raising an advertising budget for college newspapers (some time when we are not in the midst of raising the quarterly expense goal)?

Shouldn't take big bucks to at least put

FreeRepublic.comAdult (not adolescent) Entertainment
before a few college students.
If it attracted a good response that could become a significant part of the FR publicity thrust. If not . . . (shrug)

Posted by conservatism_IS_compassion to AngrySpud On News/Activism 07/07/2003 11:25 PM EDT #10 of 41

I love the link on Rush; I remember that I found FR by the link it had on Drudge. It pays to advertise--I suspect that FR could do well to make an advertising budget for itself. Probably ought to advertise on Fox News, if we could. Obviously just a one-shot or something . . .

Posted by Cicero to conservatism_IS_compassion On News/Activism 07/07/2003 11:50 PM EDT #20 of 41

I also found FR through Drudge. At that time this site was called Whitewater.
And I found Drudge from an article in the New York Times Magazine, a hit piece attempting to discredit "A Citizen's Independent Report" and several web sites for their investigative writing on the Vincent Foster murder. The Times's hatchet man stupidly mentioned a couple of the URLs in his article--or maybe it was on purpose, now that I think of it, because the writer may have been Michael Kelley. My memory's a bit dim on that point.
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Posted by Bob J to conservatism_IS_compassion On News/Activism 07/07/2003 11:31 PM EDT #13 of 41

Television advertising may be out of reach for the forseable future, but print, outdoor, radio and the internet are all in play. Jim may not want to do this, but enough people convince him of the benefits, he may change his mind!

Posted by rwfromkansas to conservatism_IS_compassion; All On News/Activism 07/08/2003 2:36 AM EDT #34 of 41 (Reply To 10)

You could advertise in my college newspaper and it wouldn't cost very much.
I will have to look at our rates, but I am co-editor and needless to say, I got enough stuff to worry about on such an extremely small publication and so the more ads I can get before school starts, the more I will feel relieved.....lol.
And hey, it would be helping FR out.
BTW, the college paper is printed in the local town paper, so you will reach a bunch of rural Kansans with it, not just the campus . . .