Posted on 05/08/2012 3:35:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
We can’t rely on the media, even the alternative media. Free Republic is announcing a new initiative that gives you a platform. We want to leverage the most powerful minds on the right to make a difference. To do this, we want to bring a new level of activism, the citizen investigator. In the spirit of 1750’s The Pennsylvania Gazette published by Ben Franklin and of Andrew Breitbart.
For the longest time, our primary focus has been on looking at what the media presents and investigating it or discussing it. We have been missing something, YOU!
Jim has created a new news category, “FReeper Editorial” (freepered) for you to post your investigative reports. We are working on getting this promoted to a sidebar and other ways to promote your work but here are the basics.
No longer will quality vanities posted in this topic be frowned upon. Free Republic needs to become about you. We are tired of waiting for the media to come around to us, it is time we take our many, many members and become an army. What was once was your vanity is now your megaphone.
To do this right, we need your help. Initially, we are trying to have this as a smooth launch, and creating the new news category is a baby step towards something big. We ask just a few things.
Stay tuned for more change, enhancements, and opportunities that go along with this. - Your friendly neighborhood Mod Squad with blessings of the big dog himself. We are not quite legion, but we are a bag of kittens.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
No blog pimping. This is for exclusive Free Republic articles.
Just thought I’d make sure this was clear.
IBTZ! Oh, wait..
This idea sounds good.
Did a couple over the years, but they did need a category for the folks who get off on only a couple of categories. This might attract them.
No “hitting it”.
This is the most important.
Great plan JR.......whos in charge here/there
Great idea...looking forward to the “enhancements”. FR is blessed with a wealth of “gum shoes” that can dig the dirt out of the stories the MSM runs away from.
Rare OP by the mods!
This is specifically for this category. We still have the bloggers category and we are considering easing up on the rules there a little as well. Although ‘pimping’ is always frowned upon.
If you please, make for it a place that is by-default visible on the sidebars....? Otherwise our original content may not get good exposure.....
THIS IS GOOD STUFF and I thank you
Sounds like a winner to me!
You need to branch, just a little IMO.
I am absolutely in on this.
There will probably be some good “action” in the Texas primary...
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That is the next step and is just waiting on a switch to be flipped.
You’ll notice your article from the other day has already been added to this category.
The heck you say!
I hear ya loud and clear. GoofyLaz may be in other parts of the forum, but only SeriousLaz in this area. :) Well, sometimes my editorial efforts tend to be a little humorous, and those might be Original Content - Editorial worthy. But only my best humorous efforts will appear in this section -- when I do humor at all.
Again: Thank you so much for this initiative. It may make FR a good alternative to such places as Red State, and it could become a huge draw, even to the chattering classes. :)
FR Network nostalgia ping. Was it 2002 when we suggested this? 2003?
5.No “hitting it”.
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Poor Laz.
But listen - if you are not already aware - Laz has been hard at work recently FReeping out just such FR editorials.
Ping him to be added to his ping list. He won’t totally bore you. I promise.
Was it the success of the LazVanity of yesterday that prompted the creation of the FReeperEditorial? If so, excellent work!
Relevant to your interests ping.
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