I see these newspaper boxes every day on my way to work. Here's The Globe and Mail, a newspaper that doesn't hide their sympathies to the poor-choice and anti-family groups. They'll never tell you the true number of people attending a pro-life rally but they'll report a few pro-abortion activists trying to disrupt the event as a massive counter-protest in support of women's rights. Here's The Times and Transcript where we may find an editorial about New Brunswick women "deserving better abortion care", but not the readers' comments that abortion doesn't have much to do with care.
Then we have The National Post, known to be somewhat a Conservative newspaper which is not afraid to disagree with the mainstream media. So far it's the only paper that publishes a series of articles to debunk the "global warming" myth. But can we count on The National Post to speak up for the unborn child? It often seems they try to distance themselves from the social issues that are considered controversial.
What else? Here in Moncton we also have a couple of free local papers - "Here" and "Boom". These are trash monthly papers published by the radical leftists. Half of these rugs are filled with ads but the other half (which is 6 to 8 pages) is usually enough for a few articles calling to legalize prostitution or praising abnormal lifestyles and mocking those who disagree.
But isn't there a single paper that speaks up for family values and supports the right to life for the unborn? Actually, there are some. Most of them - just information bulletins, published by the pro-life organizations. You may receive one every month (or every few months) if you are a member. Otherwise you may not even know that such newspapers exist since you'll never find The Interim in the convenience store nearby.
Why not? The question is not why couldn't there be a Socially Conservative daily newspaper in Canada. The question is: how can we make it happen? We have quite a few SoCon blogs (even though some of them simply quote someone else's articles with little or no comments of their own) - it's a start. Let's get together and think how can we unite the individual bloggers into a team to come up with a full-scale newsletter - with news bulletins, editorials, columnists and everything else that's usually there.
Yes, publishing a newspaper won't be easy. But we could start with the online version at first until we have let's say 10,000 visitors each day, then we could try publishing it on paper. All we need is an action plan and a team of volunteers - programmers, designers, editors, writers... If we are ready to do our best - it won't take long for the SoCon Daily to take its place on the newspaper stand.
If you want to support the project - join the discussion at Free Dominion.
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