WindyCitizen.com offers a way forward for local news

So you go into my post and complain about self promotion, just to find out that you are just as guilty? So you post a few other links here and there, but you are consistently self promoting Windy Citizen. Windy Citizen is no different than Examiner. It's all crap on the surface with a few writers who may occasionally produce an interesting article.

You then go on to gripe about what an injustice Examiner is when you publish a website that is basically the exact same thing as the Examiner, if not worse? I am not delusional. Examiner sucks. But coming from you it's quite ironic.

Furthermore, isn't the point of social media sites that the creme rises to the top and the crap sinks? That's the whole idea of voting. I've had several articles rise quickly and get a lot of votes. I've had some sink because they are crap. If I hadn't had some that were successful, I would stop posting my links here. But the truth is that posting my links on this site has been rather successful because I've had some articles gain a lot of votes.

Also, your facts on how much Examiner pays are completely off. Examiner pays $0.01 per click. That's $10 per 1,000 and I earn $1500 a month writing around 15-20 articles. It seems that some people want to read my stuff. So why do you take it upon yourself to police the site when there are others who actually enjoyed the article? 7 people voted it up because they liked it. Having to promote my own articles isn't something I gripe about. I'm not an entitled journalist. I'm a guy that works in a cube that makes money on the side by occasionally humoring people.

Perhaps it is inconceivable to you that someone could like reading something that you don't like.