Hi, Folks -

Reader S. writes, and I'll respond following:

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Re: Some say I'm panhandling, but imagine if R....

Panhandling? Try lying and stealing, you two are a couple of scammers. How is it that the 'advertising' does not cover the site expenses? Nice try telling the readers that you could actually charge a subscription for STEALING other people's work product. Try it, you will see what happens real quickly.

Rense has a reposting site he does not beg or charge a subscription. You are a liar.

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(hobie here.) Thanks for the, uh, charming letter. :) Most of the ads you see aren't paying much of anything; a lot of the in-house ads pay only when they result in sales of a product, and quite a few of them are left-overs, no longer being paid for at all. We expect to go through them all soon and eliminate the ones that aren't providing.

FYI, the money that comes in as Reader contributions doesn't go to me - none of it. All of it goes toward site costs and to the publisher, where some of it is paying for what it takes to -be- the publisher (e.g., Internet connection, etc.)

True, Rense makes a lot of material available at no charge - but he does also have a subscription for his radio show and archives. My point is that we have no idea how much comes in from those subscriptions, and no idea whether the money goes toward production costs or directly into his pocket - and we shouldn't care, either. It's his concern, not yours or ours.

The difference here is that we let you know how much is needed and generally where it's going.

--hobie