The Moderate Voice needs your help. It is crunch time: ad revenues are way down (not unusual for most weblogs, the bulk of which have vanished from several years ago due to shrinking ad revenue and Google’s robot changing blog rankings in some cases virtually overnight). Donations big and small are greatly appreciated. We’ve restored our Go Fund Me icon which goes back many years. So the total you see does NOT represent recent fundraising but the total since we started the fundraising campaigns. This doesn’t include some recent donations.
A note on TMV. In recently months site administrator Tyrone Steels masterfully redesigned the website. Not only that: he moved the site to a host that is both extremely stable and slashed our hosting costs enormously. A lot of TMV’s past expenses were to pay for major newspaper columns and legal issues. There are also some website subscriptions TMV pays for and those have been slashed.
Nevertheless:
And there is GOOD NEWS:
1. The word “moderate” has been a double edged sword. For a while it was a dirty word in both parties. It has regained much of its respectability (in one party, at least) in the post-Trump era.
2. It is highly likely The Moderate Voice will announce news that about something that will add additional content to TMV and also add a new dimension to TMV. If it happens it’ll be exciting and require a bit of new design for the website. Additionally, it could also attract more ads. More on that if it happens.
3. The Moderate Voice has been fortunate to get some donations from others kept TMV’s account from being empty.
So donate if you can and let friends know who might like what TMV tries to do to donate as well.
As many weblogs have died, we’ve always been in this for the long haul and that doesn’t change as The Moderate Voice enters its 17th year, stubbornly still here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.