Contributed by Josh Fryfogle
I mean, I am a publisher, but anybody can be a publisher. That’s the beauty of the First Amendment.
No, I’m not “THE” publisher of The People’s Paper, but I can understand the confusion. I do occasionally publish something in The People’s Paper, like this essay you’re reading right now. But those occasional essays do not make me THE publisher.
What I do with The People’s Paper is turn other people like you into publishers - as is your First Amendment right!
That’s right, I’m a publishing concierge, a steward of the stamp press, a media majordomo - not just publishing what I think ought to be published, but advocating that my neighbors to do the same. That’s why it’s called The People’s Paper.
Publish - to make public.
That’s the simple definition of the word ‘publish’. Something is published when it is made public, via any medium of media, but most especially in print (the freedom of the Press being a direct reference to the printing press).
We’re all publishers, when we make public any information, whatsoever. You can publish essays or recipes, poems or politics, edifying or ridiculous - it doesn’t matter what. We’re here to help make it happen, but you have to make the decision.
My job at The People’s Paper is simply to create a medium that is devoted to the voices of this community, a cooperative of publishers joining their civic inheritance in a peaceful and proactive way...
And you’re invited to join us.
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