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Clif Brown's avatar

User supported news sites. What a concept and what results are coming in! Thank you, and thanks to the Internet for bringing this to we the people. All of us must make a concerted effort to keep the Internet from being caged by authorities around the world, the US not least of all.

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Charlie Cooper's avatar

In the Spring of 1969, I wrote about the advantages of user-supported versus ad-supported news for my senior comprehensive exam in Government. Ad-supported news has turned out to be even worse than I imagined then.

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Clif Brown's avatar

And attempts were made to provide local news both in print and with low power radio but nothing could take off until the Internet linked everyone together to provide a huge viewer/listener base and with that a potentially huge subscriber base. It really is a miracle of communications.

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