Starter packs by Ken Bazinet

Democracy and freedom depend on independent media. Go where essential groundbreaking news and information is relevant and unimpeded by editors and news directors that put their owner's agenda ahead of the truth and hold their shareholders above their readers.

• Created by Ken Bazinet  5 months ago
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From vital local dailies to regional long-form weeklies and monthlies to specialized media, independent journalism is a safe haven for the First Amendment, facts, science, and a well-assembled sentence or two.

• Created by Ken Bazinet  4 months ago
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"The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments." --George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 1776

• Created by Ken Bazinet  5 months ago
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket." -Elon Musk Independent News Media began fighting to ensure no single person, cabal or country could control our basket, even before the corporate media oligarchs sold out to Trump and Musk.

• Created by Ken Bazinet  4 months ago
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Independent media is working to rebuild the public's trust in factual reporting as the national corporate media devolves into a playland for its owners. The independent press is also stepping in to fill a critical void where local media no longer serves communities.

• Created by Ken Bazinet  4 months ago
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American democracy has always had the good fortune of pens that seek facts to reveal the truth and words that inspire action. A few journalists, bloggers, polemicists, aggregators, agitators, thinkers, writers, surfers and street fighters.

• Created by Ken Bazinet  4 months ago
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"Nothing is hopeless that is right." -Susan B. Anthony, women's rights activist and co-founder of The Revolution, an independent suffragist weekly. The 💙 of a free press is democracy.

• Created by Ken Bazinet  3 months ago
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