I'm Thinking of Starting a News Organization...

If your goal is to reeducate people it should appeal to a mass audience. How about calling it Just News. That way you divorce it from any ideology, making it appear legit and not some right wing propaganda. That also gives it a two tone meaning as being just news and Just news as in justice.

It should be for profit to make it worth a persons time to contribute.
 
forsmant said:
If your goal is to reeducate people it should appeal to a mass audience. How about calling it Just News. That way you divorce it from any ideology, making it appear legit and not some right wing propaganda. That also gives it a two tone meaning as being just news and Just news as in justice.

It should be for profit to make it worth a persons time to contribute.
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I like the profit idea, but Freedom Forever News and Information is good, it appeals to everyone who isn't a part of the establishment, everyone loves freedom.
 
I'm just saying that it sounds like an extremist news outlet. That is the problem with the msm, there are affiliated with an ideology. News should be divorced from ideology. Your idea of freedom may differ from another, thus your site will be skewed.
 
forsmant said:
I'm just saying that it sounds like an extremist news outlet. That is the problem with the msm, there are affiliated with an ideology. News should be divorced from ideology. Your idea of freedom may differ from another, thus your site will be skewed.
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News won't be skewed, but we'd have editorials that slant to the freedom side, but all sides of the freedom message, Liberal freedom, to Conservative freedom. Freedom doesn't sound radical to anyone I've heard of, so that wouldn't automatically turn people off.
 
As long as this News Network is labeled "freedom or speech" or Liberty there shouldn't be a problem with labeling.
 
The shareholders will come up with the final name. Just because it's a non-profit doesn't mean it won't have saleried employees, it just means that it doesn't make a profit for investors, which would cause investors to try to dominate the content.

Idealy, we get it off the ground, garner some advertising (which too must be truthful) and the original investors get bought out by the corp. With it being self-funded, it'll grow very quickly into a major player. The FCC would be the greatest obstical, since the big boys would be trying to keep us quiet.

Just imagine the demand for truthful news. WOW!!
 
Can we get a sticky on this?

It's important, and could change the future of American politics if we can't get Ron Paul in the White House.
 
nate895 said:
so that we can have a news source that truly is fair and balanced. We'll cover all the candidates from both sides that have reached the threshold of $5000 from 20 states from donations of $250 or less (this way we can cover candidates who aren't total jokes).

We would start out solely on the internet, eventually expand to a magazine when we've received enough profit to start a print shop of our own, and maybe eventually we can become a TV station.

The trouble is a name.
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Picking a name is the least of your troubles.
 
nate895 said:
Can we get a sticky on this?

It's important, and could change the future of American politics if we can't get Ron Paul in the White House.
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Yes, please sticky. Remember, technically speaking there is no real regulating the media. It's biased, but it's biased by choice, not because of government involvment. Bunch of neocons...:mad:
 
We need a publicly funded corporation that we can all invest in. Buy radio stations, newspapers, maybe even television stations.
 
mavtek said:
We need a publicly funded corporation that we can all invest in. Buy radio stations, newspapers, maybe even television stations.
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That can be done later, we should start our own in the beginning, and work our way up to TV News.
 
(modified: Rev #2) MISSION STATMENT (feel free to modify, this is a rough draft)

To establish an independent environment for the free flow of unblemished truth and information to the people,

To reestablish Domestic Unity, Tranquility, Prosperity, Individual Freedom and assure all individual and collective rights??? of the people are preserved forever;

To return rightful sovereignty to the Individual States; and to the United States, by Moderating the separate Powers as provided by the Original Constitution and the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution,

To henceforth, and evermore, Assure the intended power structure provided by the Founders.
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Why would any Freedom-loving individual support a news organization who supports "collective rights?"

Why did Ron Paul oppose the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" and the "Voting Rights Act"?

Because he doesn't believe in "collective rights". This mission statement includes collectivist thinking which is the antithesis to Freedom. There are only Individual Rights and they are unalienable.

"A smoldering resentment against the unfairness of government efforts to force equality on us can inspire violence, but instead it should be used to encourage an honest system of equal justice based on individual not collective rights." - Ron Paul

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm

Our Declaration of Independance says NOTHING about "collective rights". A Republic has nothing to do with "collective rights".

I would never support a news organization who supports "collective rights."

How is it possible that the rotten philosophy of "collective rights" could sneak by everybody here without objection? Was this a test? :)

This new news network hasn't even started yet and it's already beginning on the wrong-headed principles in its mission statement. This must be changed.

IMO, the scope of the mission statement should be narrowed and simplified to something such as (rough draft too ... feel free to modify, clarify, expound) ...

"To establish an independent network which allows for a safe environment for the Free inquiry of issues and events by honest journalists, and to report the facts of the news and issues in a fair, unspun, unbiased way to the American People."

I like Liberty News Network (LNN) that was suggested.

Of course, I have a penchant for ATN (American Tradition Network)

JMO. :)

- SL

Save America's ROOTS. Read this book online for free:

The American Ideal of 1776:
The Twelve Basic American Principles

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal
 
SeekLiberty said:
Why would any Freedom-loving individual support a news organization who supports "collective rights?"

Why did Ron Paul oppose the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" and the "Voting Rights Act"?

Because he doesn't believe in "collective rights". This mission statement includes collectivist thinking which is the antithesis to Freedom. There are only Individual Rights and they are unalienable.

"A smoldering resentment against the unfairness of government efforts to force equality on us can inspire violence, but instead it should be used to encourage an honest system of equal justice based on individual not collective rights." - Ron Paul

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm

Our Declaration of Independance says NOTHING about "collective rights". A Republic has nothing to do with "collective rights".

I would never support a news organization who supports "collective rights."

How is it possible that the rotten philosophy of "collective rights" could sneak by everybody here without objection? Was this a test? :)

This new news network hasn't even started yet and it's already beginning on the wrong-headed principles in its mission statement. This must be changed.

IMO, the scope of the mission statement should be narrowed and simplified to something such as (rough draft too ... feel free to modify, clarify, expound) ...

"To establish an independent network which allows for a safe environment for the Free inquiry of issues and events by honest journalists, and to report the facts of the news and issues in a fair, unspun, unbiased way to the American People."

I like Liberty News Network (LNN) that was suggested.

Of course, I have a penchant for ATN (American Tradition Network)

JMO. :)

- SL

Save America's ROOTS. Read this book online for free:

The American Ideal of 1776:
The Twelve Basic American Principles

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal
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Change collective to states' rights. The sovereign will of the people of a state is collective, but cannot interfere with the natural rights of the individual, that is where the legislature/emergency power (convention) has authority, if it makes laws offending rights they are of no force and not real law.
 
SeekLiberty said:
AIM (American Ideal Media) ???

Tagline: "We AIM at the Truth."

:)

- SL
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I sent 4 names out to Patriot to make some logos, and he said he'll get to work tomorrow, we can pick our name based on which logo is the best. If you can get a logo up by the end of tomorrow I think we should consider it.
 
There's a lot of potential for a truly unbias media source. Problem is, you have to keep on your heels. People love to inject their own opinions into stories and with a libertarian-bias group of people, you know that's what you're going to get. It's not a bad nor good thing, it's just hypocritical. A good healthy opinion section would be flowering in ideas.

Name isn't a big issue, nor is it your biggest issue. In this day and age a contemporary, easy to remember name is necessary. It's not that hard to create a name. You create your few names you like, check them to see if they're already taken, vote on the top 3, then vote on the top #1. Unless it's an individual venture, then the founder creates the name.

Your issues will be:
- Server
- Domain
- Bandwidth/Server cost
- Web designer
- Web programmer
- Investors
- MONEY (See: Investors)
- Writers
- Editors
- Reporters
- Travel expense for reporters
- Investigators
- Insiders
- Protecting yourself from buyouts
- Protecting yourself from economic collapse
- Protecting yourself from the law
- International reporters
- Protection from sabotage, inside or out
- Copyright office

I'd love to help unfortunately money is a main issue for me. :P
 
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