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Friend,
This week, the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill was “sponsored” by Facebook.
Politico was "presented" by Amazon and Bank of America.
Even NPR routinely accepts corporate sponsorships from corporations like ExxonMobil, Comcast, and the American Petroleum Institute.
These news outlets all insist that their corporate funding has no influence on their journalism, and no doubt their reporters strive for independence.
But at Common Dreams, we don’t believe that you can take money from wealthy and powerful corporations and be truly independent at the same time. These corporations don’t give money to news outlets out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it because they think they’re getting something.
That’s why we aren’t sponsored by anyone but you, our readers.
However, I’m going to be honest with you. We’re facing serious threats to our reader-driven funding model right now. First, traffic to the Common Dreams from Google and Facebook fell sharply and suddenly last year, apparently due to a change in their algorithms. Second, donations to progressive organizations are down across the board since Donald Trump left office.
That makes our current Mid-Year Campaign even more critical than usual so we can continue to provide the nonprofit independent journalism you count on every day.
Please chip in whatever you can to help us meet our Mid-Year Campaign goal of $75,000 goal by the end of this week.
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