Eric Odom, founder of American Liberty Alliance (ALA), the group that launched and organized the tea party movement across the country, announced Friday what he calls a movement-minded news portal and his answer to the the Huffington Post. While the domain and branding are secret for now, Odom has given his news portal a temporary name, Project 73.
Odom aims to create an online news portal that he hopes will become the "gathering spot for all the news" for their "side" -- a "movement minded news portal."
"I mean, I despise a lot of what is written at Huffington Post. But the reality is... they're good at it. They cover very wide ranges of topics and they cover them well. On our side you need to visit a good ten sites in the morning to get the full web digest. On their side you just go to Huffington Post and you know about everything that's happening."
At the bottom of the Project 73 announcement, Odom says, "Not a single person involved with our organization, or any tea party movement related organization for that matter, is profiting off of the movement." However, it looks like Odom's site will be a for-profit model.
Most political organizing outfits are registered as a 501(c)(4), meaning they are not a profit-making enterprise but contributions are not tax deductible (only contributions to charitable organizations are tax deductible). However, according to ALA's website, the organization is registered as a for-profit enterprise.
The American Liberty Alliance is not a 501c3, 501c4 or a PAC. We are not registered as a non-profit and we do not raise funds as such. Our primary focus is on content. We publish information and sell advertising on our network of sites. We also occasionally seek contributions from our readers. These contributions are seen as 'gifts' to our network and are not tax deductible.
A few lines above ALA's not-a-single-person-makes-money statement, they lay out their plans for a revenue-sharing model for bloggers who participate in Project 73,
All bloggers/writers are required to submit two posts per week (minimum). There is a revenue sharing system in place that will help you earn revenue on the posts you get published.
Unlike the Huffington Post, where bloggers and writers are given almost complete freedom over their own content (the HuffPost editorial team ensures accuracy but does not dictate point of view), Odom is setting up a "news" site that he admits will tell only his "side" of the issues. And bloggers get paid
Eric Odom and Ken Marerro, the founders of the tea bagger movement and heads of ALA, have made their living by creating and managing professional, well-funded websites that appear at first glance to be grassroots. The first third of the Project 73 announcement lays out Odom's professional credentials developing and managing websites, and the post ends with, "His profession is web strategy and online community development."
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I am though.
I want to conserve logic, rationality and reason.
Individuals who help incite with lies should have to back them & when they can't they should be jailed & fined.
Many misinformed people following the extremists are innocent & not of ill or racist motive but ignorance (of the law) is no excuse (for breaking it) & there should be one against what could be nothing less then domestic terrorism, if allowed to go on.
Desperate times do call for desperate action!
The good news is most people will recognize truth when they hear it so many will be waking.
Whether they protest against their own interests due to ignorance of fact or they be the leaders such as many at Fox who shill for the greedy rich behind all this deception, they must all be held accountable.
Encourage friends, family, President Obama & elected officials to take action. Start grassroots campaigns! Make fliers! Use your imagination, just do something!
Thank goodness for the likes of Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, etc.
They're the Beales of our day & will be who saves "US" from this dangerous "Resistance Party" working against "US" & the change, we the majority, voted in;
Howard Beale & "Mad As Hell"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08
I thought that was a top secret government black ops plan to develop anti-gravity technology reverse engineered from a UFO.
Sounds to me like a pure pro/pag/ga/nda site which tr0lls will use for additional ta/lking points. On the other hand, maybe they will all go there and leave this site to the grownups
Sounds to me like a pure propag/ga/nda site which tr0lls will use for additional talking points. On the other hand, maybe they will all go there and leave this site to the grownups
....and let me tell you how ominous "project 73" sound....ominous and douch3y
What does he think the Fox Nation is? Fox News Senior VP Bill Shine even said this in the press release:
- www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1232
"We're calling it a mix between the Huffington Post and Drudge."
Fox Nation is the most brazenly biased web site from a so-called "news" enterprise ever conceived. I'm not sure what these tea partiers think it lacks. What, it isn't racist enough? It isn't rightist enough? It doesn't do enough fear mongering? What more could they want?
I am so grateful I will never understand these people. I'm not going anywhere near their site.
Their brand of logic, mixed with their mean spirited rantings, hurts my brain and rattles my soul.
I've had enough.