AlterNet Audience Breaks Funding Records, Again: Continues to Buck the Trend
Belief:
Hey Religious Believers, Where's Your Evidence?
Greta Christina
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace:
Congress Can Kill Outlandish Bonuses for Wall Streeters: Why Won't They?
Sam Pizzigati
DrugReporter:
The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't
Paul Armentano
Environment:
What's Cap and Trade? A New Video Breaks it Down and Reveals the Plan as a Scam
Janet Redman
Food:
Righteous Porkchop: Vegetarian Rancher Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way and the Ills of Factory Farms
Tara Lohan
Health and Wellness:
25 Years Since the Bhopal Disaster, We've All Become Victims of the Chemical Industry
Gary Cohen
Immigration:
Italy's Media Wrestle With Immigrant-Bashing
Sandip Roy
Media and Technology:
Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection
Linda Milazzo
Movie Mix:
Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks
Alexander Zaitchik
Politics:
Senator Sanders Unfiltered: Where Was The Fed?
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Reproductive Justice and Gender:
How Our Health System Screws Over Women
Barbara J. Berg
Rights and Liberties:
Purple Hearts On Death Row: War Damaged Vets Should Not Be Executed By the State
Karl R. Keys, Bill Pelke
Sex and Relationships:
6 Tricks to Sex After a Divorce
Julie Bogart
Take Action:
G-20 Meetings: Nothing Much Happened in the Suites, and There Was Too Much Punch in the Streets
Laura Flanders
Water:
The First Projections for Water in 2010 Are Out: Prepare Now for Another Dry Year
Peter Gleick
World:
Honduras: What Now?
Thelma Mejia
It is very trendy these days for experts to write about how readers don't care where they get their information and have far less loyalty to the sources of their content.
I don't think that is true, and AlterNet's readers prove me right, time after time.
What is true is that more and more people are sending their friends and colleagues articles, posting URLs to Facebook and Twitter, and their friends trust that information more than what they find in corporate media.
But where that information comes from is very important to the senders. They want their friends to get the best information. They care about strong, independent journalism they can trust.
We know you care, because you just broke our fall fundraising record, just like last year, when you broke our "end-of-the-year" giving record. And this is during a time when people have less money, and the jobless rate is atrociously high. All of us at AlterNet thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Over the past few weeks 1,594 donors gave AlterNet more than $63,000, $20,000 over our goal. In addition to supporting our existing staff and work, we can now move forward to more deeply develop our coverage of other essential issues, including food politics -- organic, factory farms, raw milk, corporate-planned food addictions, vegetarianism, local growing and free-range meat, and tons more.
Newspapers are failing; corporate media repeat hysterical disinformation as news; government-hating, right-wing ideologue Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and much more. None of these sources are dependable.
What is dependable is AlterNet and its partners: TruthDig, The Nation, Mother Jones, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Think Progress, Feministe, Campaign for America's Future, and many more.
We have four short, intense fundraising campaigns a year. It helps us survive and thrive. We'll have another as we close the year, so if you missed this one, fear not, we'll be back. Or if you are so moved, go here to donate.
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Don Hazen is the executive editor of AlterNet.
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