The Coop Scoop Newsletter From Marc Cooper is a regular progressive but contrarian newsletter again to cover this dramatic run up to the 2020 election. For the last few months in 2016, Marc did this work, but could not sustain it for time and budgetary reasons. Now, they are starting up again, and they have decided to ask for some simple monetary support so they can pay some part-time researchers. Not only is our government run by a crime family, but the very basis of our democracy hangs in the balance. Meanwhile, with few exceptions, the traditional media – rife with economic worries and inherent biases – is collapsing. Just as alarming, many of the independent web-based alternative media are being snapped up by private equity groups and getting shut down or hemmed in politically. Marc has been very successful in building a huge Facebook gathering of some 8,000 followers, but FB is a problematic platform nowadays. Posts get taken down by Zuck’s robots, trolls disrupt comment threads, and distribution is limited by invisible and unknowable formulas. Marc believes they can have an even stronger impact with more of a conventional mailing system reaching beyond FB’s artificial boundaries. Marc is a retired journalist and a retired USC Journalism Professor with 45 years of global experience. They have written three non-fiction books including the LATimes best-seller Pinochet And Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir. Marc was a special global correspondent for the Village Voice in its heyday, and their work has appeared in dozens of venues from the Los Angeles Times to The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, The Guardian, CBS News, and PBS Frontline just to name a few. At USC, Marc founded and directed their digital news outlet Neon Tommy that became the most-visited university web site in America. Marc was a founding advisor to The Huffington Post, where Marc later served as Senior Editor and editorial director of its 2007-08 citizen campaign reporting project Off The Bus. As a young man in the early 70’s, Marc was a translator for Chilean President Salvador Allende and was able to escape Chile in September 1973, eight days after the coup. Marc believes they bring a fresh, often biting, take on current events. Their roots are in 60’s activism but Marc is NOT a PC robot or a knee-jerk liberal. Marc comes from a democratic socialist background long before most people ever heard the term. As far as Marc is concerned, everybody and everything is a fair target for scrutiny. Marc has NO sacred cows and you can never be sure where Marc will land on any given issue. For the last 10 years, Marc has refused most ideological labels as they have generally been corrupted. Marc prefers to say that in lieu of a political dogma, Marc simple adheres to core principles: more democracy, more quality, more transparency. A small monthly contribution from you will help Marc sustain what should be a once-weekly (or more) newsletter from Marc on the stories of the day. Along with Marc’s take, Marc will provide some good links, and maybe some occasional photos from the Pacific Northwest where Marc lives, or from other places around the world where Marc visits. Larger contributions are of course welcome. Marc is setting an initial goal of $10,000 a year to pay for a part-time assistant and maybe some travel (thinking about going to Iowa in February for the caucuses).
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