Money

Freedom of the Press Group expansion consists of two crucial things in each town, city or county we launch our newspapers in:

• Money
• People ("investors")
  

FOTP Group is not yet a News Corp. or an Infowars.com or a bank account-flush entity. Yet. We believe we will get there, and soon, but we must depend on the financial resources and backing of the people in the towns, cities and counties to keep our paper going after the first issue. So far, it has been a smashing success. The popularity of our "investors" (the people who fund our papers) has been so great that we are having problems fulfilling all the requests to expand. That's a great problem to have!

Whether our investors are anonymous or public, it does not matter. We jokingly like to say that FOTP Group is structured like a "drug cartel." We have distribution people, we have spies, we have sources, leaks and the lookouts, and we have the infrastructure in each town, city and county that relays to us the information, resources and helps deliver our papers.

The first-ever issue is a required 700-copy press run. That means that in any city, town or county, approximately 700 copies of the paper must be printed and given out -- for free and/or sold (the stores and merchants keep the proceeds at first.) This is designed to "seed" the market and poll the popularity of our papers.

Unlike some newspapers and media companies, we do not -- and never will -- refer to our papers as merely "products." We offer services to towns, cities and counties, and people, so that they can reclaim their lives and living areas from the clutches of corrupt politicians.

Investors don't always have to be advertisers, though. In fact, most of our investors are simply people who want to be behind the scenes, but still see the work we do come out in the open to seek changes in various governments. FOTP Group, naturally, is criticized for such an approach. But we cannot ourselves be bought or sold. If an investor is an elected official, for example, we will apply the same standards on them as we would anyone else. That's what is unique and independent about FOTP Group: we practice what we teach.