From Common Dreams <[email protected]>
Subject The corporate threat to our nonprofit journalism
Date October 24, 2021 3:08 PM
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Common Dreams was founded on the audacious idea that, with the financial
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just describe the world—but change it, too.

But that new media model relied on a free and open internet where
nonprofit news sites like ours could compete on an even footing with
corporate media.

Thanks to Big Tech, the internet is becoming much less free and open
with each passing day.

Today a few giant corporations, such as Google and Facebook, control a
huge percentage of the web's online traffic. And in the past year,
visits to our website from both tech behemoths have dropped off a cliff.

Ten years ago, if you googled for news about an issue like global
warming, articles by Common Dreams would have been among the top hits.
Today our coverage—which is some of the best in the business—is likely
nowhere to be seen.

Friend , we're as committed to our model of
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take a dime of corporate advertising. But to continue covering the news
that the corporate media won't, our regular fundraising campaigns are
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