Today, seven of my articles have been picked up by The Citizen Free Press. Very few Internet sites attract more “traffic.” Today, every month, Citizen Free Press reaches tens of millions of viewers around the world. Once upon a time I thought, “Maybe one day The Drudge Report will link to one of my articles and one of my articles will really go viral.” Then Drudge sold out and I knew my type of journalism/commentary would never appear at the “new” Drudge …īut then - the free market still works! - Citizen Free Press came along and started doing the job Drudge abdicated. I don’t know who at Citizen Free Press decides what articles to promote at their “aggregator” site … but whoever these people are, they’re doing God’s Work as far as I am concerned. Occasionally an “alternative media” site would publish one of my articles, which made me feel better, although 90 percent of these sites don’t pay freelance writers.Īnd then, one day, I decided that I needed to start my own Substack site because this is where all the great and important writing is taking place these days.īut even once you’ve done this, your “success” is entirely dependent on someone else “picking up” your articles. This is deflating for writers like myself. The other half of the battle - even more important really - is finding someone at a news site with a much bigger audience who thinks their readers would enjoy the same article.įor years, I was writing articles I thought were pretty good and original, but nobody would run the articles. ![]() A person I’ve never met at CFP saw my article ( a book review of The Real Anthony Fauci ) and must have liked it enough to link to it.įor any writer who wants to reach a lot of people (and perchance “influence the narrative”), half the battle is writing what the author thinks is a worthwhile article.
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