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An Appeal from BlackCommentator.com – We need your financial support – A message from the Publisher and Staff
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Dear Reader of BlackCommentator.com, At BlackCommentator.com, we measure the health of the economy by one simple metric: the number of BC readers requesting a no-cost subscription through the Low Income Readers Program. The economic outlook isn’t good. As BC approaches Issue #400, we have more non-paying subscribers than ever before. A higher percent of all…
October 14, 2010 2 min read Free to read
Dear Reader of BlackCommentator.com,
At BlackCommentator.com, we measure the health of the economy by one simple metric: the number of BC readers requesting a no-cost subscription through the Low Income Readers Program.
The economic outlook isn’t good.
As BC approaches Issue #400, we have more non-paying subscribers than ever before. A higher percent of all BC readers need no-cost subscriptions. We turn no one away who wants to be a BlackCommentator.com reader, regardless of one’s ability to pay.
Nonetheless, our hard-hit readership can afford less in contributions to support the Low Income Readers Program, and this has lead to a serious drop in financial support. More and more readers, fewer and fewer funds, expenses that only rise, it’s a discouraging scenario all around.
If you are at all able, would you consider making a contribution?
We are grateful for donations of any amount. Even if you don’t feel you can become a subscriber, are you able to help out at all? Are you able to take advantage of one of the BC subscription payment plans?
Thank you for considering making a contribution. Thank you for being a reader of BlackCommentator.com. We wouldn’t be sending you this letter if it weren’t so very necessary to do so.
In struggle,
Publisher and Staff
BlackCommentator.com
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