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Published: 2016-11-04
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everyone in spirit with news but dot com joined here with Sibel Edmonds our last session we discussed the for media models that are in existence today and we're gonna die a little bit deeper into that and focus in on the two models that are most relevant for who we are and what we do the open source model versus the subscription model as pointed like to bring
in news but founder and editor Sibel Edmonds about welcome hello everyone highs zero are absolutely did two models that are relevant to what we have been doing here are the subscription model open source model and on and off in the past six seven years even way back when been be started boiling frogs post BFB report we talked about how do we sustain ourselves and at that
point be realized in order to have on going support that you can count on and based on that you know nowhere be stand how much we can expand how many people we can you know bring onboard the decided on subscription model and saying that okay behalf that core group of people who enjoy reading the analysis we are putting out there and the podcast programs etcetera anda
and they enjoy not to commit to say okay every month I will pay you when it whatever it is five dollars or six dollars some people who can do more of the U. more and they have been doing more there are people who have been putting fifty dollars a month then you know what I can and I appreciate what I'm seeing so subscription model was our
model and and we kept going you know back importance saying you're creating all this great content and of course the first preference would be to open it all because you want to get this information as many people as possible I mean after all we keep saying informing or or having the debate a continual between not only us what we are producing but through the comments that
are coming under our you tube channel or you know on our website good but the dilemma that we face where it was well how do you balance that you meaning the open source of course is the ultimate model the best mark okay well on top of that we say yup you not gonna have any advertisement no corporate advertisement whatsoever okay so no advertisement money we are
saying no to foundation well the open source model will be only possible if people with their actions say yes I appreciate the content I see value in it and now willing to commit to pay for whatever I can per month to sustain this because its model this news organization is important to me and every time we tried as boiling frog supposed he kept coming back to
subscription sure they were wonderful dedicated individuals who genera generously donated I mean we didn't have enough because unfortunately even today after seeing the agenda driven news you know sugar Daddies from various foundations that corporate advertisement and the censorship that comes with that the pressure that comes with that there is still this thinking mode out there of that says for many people it is free why do
I have to pay for it I enjoyed I love what they're doing but hopefully other people will pay hopefully other people will say Hey I'm gonna put five Bucks in this I'm gonna put five hundred boxes I'm gonna put twenty five Bucks in this so you get this thing that is a very common phenomenon in %HESITATION phenomena in a in psychology meaning is almost like prisoners
them I say everybody thinking someone else is gonna do it and I can take advantages for free or maybe Stephen too difficult for me to open my wallet take out my credit card and or or send the check and send it to the PO box all these reasons made of the open source model not possible for boiling frocks post so what we did is that we
came up with this model is that okay we are going to have certain level of funding come through Kickstarter in four faces which we are doing but meanwhile the are going to keep asking people to voluntarily subscribed and eighty four cost of couple of cups of coffee per month so that we can count on that and between the two we won't be able to accomplish this
objective of independent media non partisan media no corporate money no foundation money etcetera %HESITATION and that's exactly where we are here all for subscription eighty eight we are asking people to voluntarily do dat we doubt taking our content and put it behind firewalls you know all the P. wall that this subscription wall of them whether we do it say okay for the first two weeks of
publication of this video by this producer we are going to make this content available to our subscribers which is we just right you know these are the people who are willing to step up to the plate and say I am supporting you and then after a couple of weeks or three weeks or four weeks once their archive make it public to everyone and to reach this
balance that yes eventually make our content public but we are going to force appreciate and give this content to people who are willing to participate because many are saying their hundred person people funded media is the media organization that you're all owners meaning all our viewers are part owners in this company in despondent station in this media entity so even though he wanted to start doing
that right after our first space space one he said you know what now less less less hold off and let's just make it everyday make everything public immediately so we publish it everybody gets it and am I not Kickstarter campaign the way it's going and also people voluntarily subscribing yet hopefully will prove this matter at the best method and right well password BR today we are
one hundred percent open source so as viewers as readers what we want you to do is to think about it think about the salary of the people involved here who are spending way above forty hours a week wave and it to produce the writers the web administrators all this all this amount of work level of work resources that are going into this and say plus I
don't have to put up with adds I don't have to question I wonder about quarter corporations were finding them I don't have to ever bother myself they whose agenda there representing weather's George Soros or somebody from the right side well how is that possible just just pause just pause and think about it that is the answer the one that just occurred to you well of course
by people by each person each individual doing their share I mean currently our Kickstarter is aiming for hundred thirty thousand dollars on average every day behalf five to six thousand unique IP addresses people visiting our website enjoying the articles watching to BDO's looking at our new selection if five thousand people okay five thousand people each one of those people work together like Adam fifty dollars where
would we get with that I am by now campaign will be over right so it's not something that is outrageous way out there not that she will pull the only thing that it depends on the only thing that it depends upon is for people to just stop and think they are everything we want no agenda no party etcetera and we are the ones who can keep
them operational we are the ones who can help them grow get even bigger stronger you know wants to camp with the matter business or in the case of subscription versus open source we are the ones who will determine whether open source has a chance you see you know how people they say well in this case is not this particular issue on trial it's this concept the
concept of your concept of liberty on trial right well in this particular case the whole concept notion of open source being to be totally independent and open source is on trial meeting would be to gather you together with us artist's soul determinants off whether this can be one hundred percent open source one hundred percent independent so please keep that in mind and that's exactly what news
but what's what we want is we want people people mostly value with this not if you don't see value you know see value mean who are we to judge you for that but if you see any value if you're coming and visiting our website if you're watching our video you're saying wow this was amazing I had not heard this particular angle of Allah explanation or dis
report that is such an amazing expose then do your share say I want this I see value in this and it is up to me and individuals like me to sustain this to make this growth to make it stronger and to prove to the other side the other side yes it is I mean the same concept applies to even presidential race or people are or running
for Senate especially today with the internet they have to glance his because of the corporations and sell their souls to get millions of dollars from this particular financial institution or that particular pharma if people were to find the kind of leadership they wanted and they work to support it you know even those corporations would be irrelevant because imagine her what are the three hundred something three