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What's the point?Unknown News, we believe in liberty and justice for all, so of course, we oppose many US government policies. Here's a more detailed introduction to who we are and what we're about. We present a once-weekly round-up of "unknown news" from credible sources, along with intelligent (we try!) commentary and dialogue on current events. Unlike CNN and your daily newspaper, Unkno... Top of page Are you full of crap or what?Unknown News does not employ reporters in Boston, Baghdad, or anywhere else. Our news links lead to mainstream professional journalistic sources (or, rarely, to independent sources we know and trust without reservation), but we don't have fact-checkers scrutinizing mainstream media reports, and we cannot guarantee the factual accuracy of every assertion in every article we... Top of page What kind of commentary are you looking for?We strongly prefer 'unknown' authors. A non-celebrity writing his/her personal political opinion on a li'l weblog is much more likely to write something thought-provoking, insightful, or just plain interesting. We love linking to well-written opinion articles at amateur websites, where the few hundred readers our link might send will be most appreciated. We're delighted to... Top of page What about conspiracy theories?a broad generalization, conspiracy theorists believe that many or most of life's larger international, financial, and political aspects are controlled by the wealthy and well-connected, who often meet and strategize amongst themselves. We certainly believe that. What we doubt are people who think they understand it all, or even a tiny fragment, and want to explain it to ev... Top of page Can I redesign your website?Unknown News must be the ugliest site on the web, as at least once a month we hear from someone who's eager to redesign our pages. If there's a problem with this site's functionality or readability — a link doesn't work or you find a font difficult to read — please let us know (unknownnews ay inbox.com). If you have a specific suggestion that would make the site ... Top of page Do you have an RSS feed?We offer seven different RSS-ish feeds -- take your pick: news, commentary, daily headlines, etc. -- but we do it with HTML instead of RSS. We prefer HTML because it's really simple, and because every time I've looked into RSS, it's looked like a confusing catastrophe of headache-inducing work that requires me to change everything about how we hand-code our pages. Top of page Do you want to switch hosts?Now and then we hear from folks who like the website, and want to offer us hosting at a discount. Some of these saints even offer hosting for nothin'. We appreciate the heck out of the offer, but the answer is no. We're on our third host now; the first two were spotty at best, one with lots of down time and the other with lots of down time plus a note asking us to tone dow... Top of page How do you decide what news goes where?When we find a news article we feel is amazingly 'unknown' or outrageous, we place it near the top of the page, along with links to articles published by Unknown News. This generally accounts for the first few articles presented daily. After that, though, we make little or no attempt to "rank" the day's news by importance. Everything is presented in pretty much the order i... Top of page Will you give me a free ad?Depends. We need to sell ads to support our website, and we also give solidarity ads to support other projects that, in our opinion, deserve support. We're won't give solidarity ads to sites or projects we don't wholeheartedly endorse. That means the answer is no for anything comprised entirely or almost entirely of merchandise for sale, or run by incorporated companies, o... Top of page What kind of news are you looking for?By definition, unknown means most folks don't know about it and news means it's something new. We're generally looking for links which are either unknown or news, or preferably both. We're particularly interested in news about government, corporate, and other corruption, malfeasance, atrocities, and et cetera. Top of page When's the deadline?We don't do deadlines — too much pressure. We get to the email when we get to the email, which can be anytime from immediately after you send it till 18-24 hours later. The lag is even longer on the weekends. If you're sending something that's date-sensitive — a deep think-piece on Arbor Day, for example — we suggest you send it at least several days before ... Is that offensive?In the end, these oh-so-respectable judges decided that the state, not the individual, has the final say on any citizen's desire to open his or her mouth or bunghole for pleasure. They decided that Louisianans may not take it up the ass. That's offensive. To anyone who isn't violently allergic to freedom, the Court's decision is far more vulgar and offensive than any conse... Top of page Why don't you answer or even acknowledge my emails?The work here is done by just two people, and we have only a few hours daily to go through hundreds of incoming emails. Like almost any other publication, we have guidelines for writers. We've tried to include links to our guidelines at just about every mention of our email address, but if you haven't read the guidelines, we probably haven't read or even received your subm... Top of page Why did you hit me with a pop-up ad?We didn't. We don't do pop-ups, pop-unders, or any shenanigans remotely like that. We never have, we never will, and we'd like to see such shenanigators tarred and feathered and drawn and quartered. If you saw a pop-up at Unknown News, your computer is carrying malware or spyware. You may have visited a website that launched a "pop-under" ad, or that launched "pop-up" ads ... Top of page Why did you reject my submission?We receive a surprisingly large and growing number of submissions, but our time and budget are so tightly limited we're only able to publish material that absolutely knocks us on our asses. That's an utterly subjective standard, and it unavoidably means we say "no thanks" to many fine articles. If you've read the guidelines but we still reject your article, please don't ta... Top of page Why haven't you published my article or e-mail?We receive a lot of email, and we can't go through it any quicker than we go through it. As Scottie would say, we canna break the laws of physics. hectic peaks, it may be as long as three days before we read and reply or publish an email. And it takes lots of time to edit, code, and prep articles, so "think pieces" (commentary that isn't directly related to current news, o... |
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