{"id":382539,"date":"2018-10-26T20:44:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-is-serious-help-keep-counterpunch-a-corporate-free-zone\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:44:52","slug":"this-is-serious-help-keep-counterpunch-a-corporate-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-is-serious-help-keep-counterpunch-a-corporate-free-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Serious, Help Keep CounterPunch a Corporate-Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Dear CounterPunchers,<\/p>\n<p>We are just 1\/4 away from reaching our modest fund drive goal. For those of you that already have donated, we thank you greatly. Without your support and generosity, CounterPunch would cease to exist. We know for many more of you, you rely on CounterPunch but don\u2019t have the means to support us financially. We understand and appreciate your continued readership. But for those that have not yet donated, but read CounterPunch often, we hope you will consider donating. Our operational expenses are growing faster than we can keep up with.<\/p>\n<p>No amount is too small. Your donations allow us to run the site free of sponsors, ads or clickbait. We believe this enhances your experience on our site. CounterPunch is truly independent media. Let\u2019s keep it that way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.counterpunch.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106539\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/donate-red.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/donate-red.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/donate-red-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/donate-red-768x308.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the fund drive, we get loads of feedback from our readers and our haters (who still peruse our pages). Some of you tell us about your reading habits; others offer congratulations and thanks. Some send us wishlists \u2013 both editorial and operational. CounterPunchers are a diverse bunch and we appreciate the feedback. Still, we get as many complaints that our fund drive is \u201cannoying\u201d\u2013 we\u2019re called all sorts of nasty shit (we can take it) and told that the fund drive is off-putting and worse, while some tell us they\u2019ll never read CounterPunch again because we\u2019re trying to \u201cforce\u201d them to donate. The fund drive can seem interminable \u2013 we think so, too! We do apologize for this,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/26\/this-is-serious-help-us-keep-counterpunch-a-corporate-free-zone\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear CounterPunchers, We are just 1\/4 away from reaching our modest fund drive goal. For those of you that already have donated, we thank you greatly. Without your support and generosity, CounterPunch would cease to exist. We know for many more of you, you rely on CounterPunch but don\u2019t have the means to support us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}