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Hard to believe that anyone would have feelings for the humble Gleaner other than the warm and cuddly kind. And yet there are those who wish your Gleaner would just go away. Well now, they (and you!) can help make that wish come true. Sort of. For a few days, anyway. By clicking on the donate button.
Haven't clicked yet? Perhaps a little explanation is in order...
Some may remember last month when Howie Dean his own self announced via (slow-loading) video that the Gleaner was picked as Nevada's representative in the state blogger corps at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August.
What does it mean? Damned if Gleaner knows, except: a) apparently it's another honor reserved mostly for white people, so looks like that came in handy yet again, and b) the party will bestow snazzy credentials allowing posts to be filed — gasp! — from right smackity dabbity on the convention floor in the midst of the state's delegation.
Yes, most impressive, though there's a nagging hunch on this end that the best reports will be prompted by stuff that happens away from the convention floor.
Anyway, as one real and honest-to-goodness Gleaner reader actually and genuinely said, "You have to go so that those of us who don't can read pithy dispatches."
Deal!
Just one little thing. Unlike some other Nevadans who write blogs, the Gleaner receives neither a salary (let alone an expense account) from a profitable media organization, nor a handsome income provided by secret fat cat contributors through a shadowy tax-exempt front group.
Yes, by all means, praise be to the growing number of insightful, enlightened advertisers who recognize that the Gleaner is the most cost-effective way to reach affluent, educated opinion-leaders, bar none. Perhaps you'd care to join them.
And Gleaner will probably use the convention to knock out some local freelance work that might generate several, which is to say more than eleven, American dollars.
But still, footing the bill to Denver is going to be a tad dicey.
So won't you help by contributing generously to the Kick the Gleaner Out of Town fund?
(Unless of course you can't afford it — it's always the people who can least afford it who are most eager to give, don't you agree?)
Please?
As Dean Heller would say, gracias.
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