I do not, by choice, have a television set. Can't stand the LSM. I get a good 90% of my news from right here.
When something is that valuable to me, I try and perpetuate it. That's why I'm a monthly donor and kick in the bucks to sponsor new monthly donors. Because I know we need to increase the monthly donor amount to completely eliminate the quarterly FReepathons.
FR's quarterly nut is $85,000. Divided by 3, FR's monthly nut is around $28,350. According to the scoreboard (scroll to the bottom), there are 680 monthly donors that give $11,428 per month, leaving $16,900 to be made up through the FReepathon.
If a bunch more FReepers would start donating monthly (and it's not hard; if you have auto bill pay at your bank, just add FR - this is not rocket science), FReepathons would be a thing of the past.
If you like FR, donate. If you really like FR, as I do, donate monthly.
Do what ever you can to keep FR on the air.
That’s such a good post, upchuck.
I do things a bit differently, but we’re thinking alike nonetheless. I go to FR and check news. Sometimes in the background I have fox news running (I prefer fox business, actually).
I use Free Republic to check the accuracy of anything that might get through from Fox. Bet they wouldn’t like to hear that. It’s truly amazing, though, when you get a hundred people talking on a thread how much detail and background they remember that puts news items in a much more accurate framework.
“FR’s quarterly nut is $85,000. Divided by 3, FR’s monthly nut is around $28,350. According to the scoreboard (scroll to the bottom), there are 680 monthly donors that give $11,428 per month, leaving $16,900 to be made up through the FReepathon.”
So 1.7% of freepers are monthly donors, and they make up over 40% of freerepublic’s income. Multiply the monthly donors by 2.5, or if 4.25% of freepers donated monthly, there would be no need for freepathons.