BuzzFlash's "commentary and serious introductions - plus editorials - makes it far more engaging than print media ever was"

BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTIONS

May 6, 2009

From time to time we post samples of the many kind and generous e-mails and letters that we receive from the BuzzFlash community  -- and we are a community!

We want you to read them and to assure you that even with our bare bones budget, we are somehow squeezing more out of less and expanding coverage and improving the site (we are working on software overhauls before going to an obviously much-needed upgraded design, but that is still -- due to financial limitations -- a way off and subject to continued support).

But when you go to the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace and buy liberally or just donate (not tax-deductible because we don't want political limitations), you are investing in our survival and expansion, which is investing in the future of democracy.

Here are what a couple of readers think of BuzzFlash, among the hundreds and hundreds of missives that we have received:

Hello BuzzFlash,

Just a note from bed, using my trusty Nokia Communicator, my primary avenue to reading your witty and apt Twitter postings (plus Markos' also).

Buzzflash has such a personal touch that it's far more interesting to read your prélude to a linked article first than by just going there directly.

It's as if I knew you personally and was getting immediate information without the corporate filtration fuzzing up the content. Your combination of breezy commentary and serious introductions - plus editorials - makes it far more engaging than print media ever was, in the pre-television days.

Robert Trout, H. V. Kaltenborn and Lowell Thomas were the radio voices of my formative years. Even at their best it was not as involving as Buzzflash (and the DailyKos).

Thanks for keeping the liberal information sphere alive and vibrant.

Yours cordially, Doug

And:

Subject: Why I support BuzzFlash

I am a bit embarrassed to say that I do not contribute every month to BuzzFlash, even though I feel that I should. I am a high school teacher and with budget cutbacks am wondering if I will have a job in the coming school year. Thank you, wizards of Wall Street.

Since the stolen election of 2000, when I lived in Miami - close to ground zero, BuzzFlash has been like a haven for me. Somehow I felt a little bit better coming here. It certainly has saved me time and the attitude is close enough to my own that I feel very much at home here. I have bought a number of premiums, especially when it looked as if BuzzFlash wasn't going to make its monthly goal. I've usually kicked in an extra $10 or $20 donation with my purchase to ease my conscience.

Even though I suspected the worse about the Bush junta, they surpassed my expectations and BuzzFlash, in true form, is helping me keep up with all the fast breaking news, wretched though it may be. Here is my pledge. If my teaching contract is renewed I will become a regular monthly donor to BuzzFlash because I am way overdue.

Thanks for helping to keep me informed all these years. Thanks for giving me an online place to 'hang' and feel at home all these years. Please keep up the good work.

A BuzzFlash Reader

So rest assured, when you support BuzzFlash with dollars, your hard-earned money goes for staff, expenses, survival, expansion and a feisty attitude that has broken stories and been a thorn in the side of the elite establishment for nine years (May 11th is our anniversary).

We're glad that you are part of our family. 

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