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As a first step, I would see if we could start with the "homeless" paper, which already has a distribution network.<br>
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color:blue'>[WS:] The problem is not the lack of distribution network, but the lack of demand. There are already many left-wing or left-liberal pubs, The Nation, Dollars and Sense, Mother Jones, the New Yorker, local “alternative” weeklies, to name only a few, with well established distribution networks. But they focus only on narrow market niches, outside which they could not survive. They could not survive mainly because the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> population is generally not receptive to left leaning ideas, so the circulation – and revenues – would be rather limited. This is why Limbaugh and Hannity shows are doing well, while liberal shows of the same nature fold. This is a country of god, guns, and guts, and it will remain so in the foreseeable future. The already existing left/liberal media is all that the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> market can bear. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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