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If you guys want to see the best Conservative paper in the state, check out www.citizenreviewonline.org/current_news.html It's a fabulous little paper that covers our side (the Conservative-Constitutionalist-taxpayer-property rights) side of Washington State news as well as we could ever hope to have it covered.. It's published out of Port Angeles.

Chad as I said earlier, I've "been there, done this" as far as putting out papers, and I hate to see you get your hopes dashed. Just in reading these posts, I see this suddenly turning from a little Freeper tabloid into a daily, and covering all kinds of stuff that is covered ad infinitum in other publications. There isn't a single publication out there that I know of that isn't just barely keeping their heads above water. Print media today is akin to the buggy whip industry. It just can't compete with TV and the internet. Each year more and more papers and magazines go out of business.

If you had a lifetime of experience under your belt, you might be able to get this off the ground on a no-profit "doing-this-for-the-heck-of-it" experiment, but starting off with no know-how, no funding, no technical expertise, etc., (and then add in the fact you're unknown, FreeRepublic is unknown, the economy stinks, etc., etc., etc.) it looks to me like the bigger you plan this thing to begin with (and the broader you dilute the content), the more apt this is to fail.

My recommendation is IF you do decide to do a publication, learn to walk before you try out for the Olympics. Start with something small and see if you can get that to fly first, THEN expand as the money and opportunities come along.

To get back to the great little paper from Port Angeles, that's an alternative paper published in a VERY Conservative community, tons of local support, and I've watched it struggle and barely make it for years now. Last I heard, they had switched from being a printed paper to an on-line paper. (They may still have a printed version, but I think they dropped the newspaper.)

I don't mean to throw cold water on this, but I do think you should come full circle and get back to thinking of starting smaller and THEN growing.

Oh, believe me, I understand - The purpose of this thread has been to mainly flesh out ideas, get help, and learn some things. I want to start very small - very very small, in fact, and go from there.

I have, in my own mind, decided against doing a daily - and no, it wouldn't cover sports, restaurant reviews, or anything like that - no fluff, but rather short, concise, to-the-point substance with a focus on our state and it's issues. I am, though, trying to hopefully encourage others elsewhere to do it in their communities as well. Who needs a big large, impersonal newspaper - we already have those. Instead, I'd like to see hundreds, if not thousands, of small publications like this all across the nation - each independent of the other, and dealing with their own communities/states etc.

So yes, I plan to start small, and am not hoping for a large media empire... :0)