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Anyone here familiar with The Daily Banter? - need to support independent news
Anyone here familiar with the Daily Banter? I admit to being limited in my media scanning and was wondering if anyone here knows anything about them.
Looking at this page I came across got me to thinking that I should step up and buy a subscription and perhaps even post about them. It is so desperately important that people start getting woken up, perhaps it is a fools errant and it's all already lost, but its not over yet, and struggling for something is better than getting wrapped in despair and apathy and rolling over for it.
Heck $40.00 a year. I can spring that. Independent News sources are expensive to maintain, they will need our individual help more than ever.
If anyone has any insights about these folks please do share.
http://thedailybanter.com/page/about/
Looking at this page I came across got me to thinking that I should step up and buy a subscription and perhaps even post about them. It is so desperately important that people start getting woken up, perhaps it is a fools errant and it's all already lost, but its not over yet, and struggling for something is better than getting wrapped in despair and apathy and rolling over for it.
Heck $40.00 a year. I can spring that. Independent News sources are expensive to maintain, they will need our individual help more than ever.
If anyone has any insights about these folks please do share.
http://thedailybanter.com/page/about/
The Banter started in 2007 when Editor in Chief Ben Cohen got fed up with watching the corporate news not doing its job properly. After several years as a single person blog, the Banter relaunched in 2012 bringing on several prominent columnists like Bob Cesca, Chez Pazienza and White House reporter Tommy Christopher. Since then, the Banter has grown month after month, year after year and has become a highly respected voice in today’s media landscape.
In the Industry
We are quoted regularly by publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, Salon, The Huffington Post, and Gawker for our reporting and political commentary. We’ve probably offended all of them at one point (but they still read us!).
Our Work
At the Banter, we aim to provide our readers with witty, lively commentary on a broad array of topics. We are primarily a political mag, but we also cover media, pop culture, and sports. We do not do viral content, we do not trick readers with misleading headlines, and virtually everything we publish is our own.
We do our best to take down idiocy on both sides of the political spectrum and provide well researched, witty analysis to keep our readers sane. We crowd funded a trip to Ferguson to report on the police protests, have broken serious stories, and even helped authorities catch high profile criminals with our reporting.
The Mission, and Your Help
Independent media is struggling to survive in the digital age. We want to prove that independent journalism and commentary can not only survive, but thrive. Ad revenue cannot sustain professionally run sites like The Daily Banter, and we need reader support to continue to do what we do. If you believe what we do is important, become a subscriber and help us on our mission to fund real content!
Read more about the team here!
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Though I think the basic reality that independent news is going to be desperately dependent on readers voluntarily kicking in some money is a really important thing to bring across to everyone.
I fear way too many, way the hell underestimate what just happened and what's going to be hitting us come 2017.
Any delay in organizing and growing, and preparing arguments and tactics will cost us dearly.
On YouTube you got:
Secular talk
Democracy Now
and
The Young Turks
They all work well as radio in the background while doing your chores around the house. You mostly do not need to see the video.
I have also seen a science magazine like this ones. They were about to start and I first wanted to sample the quality, but I now lost the link. Does anyone else know it?
(P.S: You cannot link to YouTube channels, the forum converts it into a video, one that does not work because there is no video at the channel address. So I linked to some climate video's. Do not know if they are good.)