{"id":16054,"date":"2016-09-13T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:54:23","slug":"the-zephyr-backbone-needs-our-readers-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/the-zephyr-backbone-needs-our-readers-support\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zephyr Backbone Needs Our Readers’ Support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE ZEPHYR<\/div>\n
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WE STILL NEED YOUR SUPPORT …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hunter Thompson once wrote, “It’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the dumber and more ‘hag-ridden’ and complacent the media becomes, and the more it embraces “stagnant mediocrity,” the safer its bottom line remains. There’s the rub.<\/div>\n
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The Zephyr <\/i>works hard to avoid these labels, regardless of the “bottom line,” and we think we’ve mostly succeeded. But our efforts come at a cost. Corporations and other “Big Money” aren’t very fond of our little cyber rag. That’s why we depend on the financial support of our readers via your modest contributions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As we approach the end of our 28th year of continuous publication, we continue to report on the remarkable changes happening to Moab and to the world.\u00a0 Our planet and our lives bear little resemblance to the place we once knew.\u00a0 As for my beloved Moab, I can only paraphrase Ed Abbey… <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Can you tell me where Moab, Utah is?”\u00a0 <\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“No…but I can tell you where it was.”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But The Zephyr <\/em>stays involved and continues to report the changes. Our 15,000 word investigative report, “What’s Past Is Prologue,” <\/a>about Moab’s recent political controversy, has generated intense interest. We thought it was important to pursue this story when no one else in the Utah media would touch it.<\/div>\n
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And more than any other publication in southeast Utah, we continue to chronicle the history of the places and people who once made the Colorado Plateau such an interesting place to live. I am slowly working through thousands of new images, taken in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, by Herb Ringer, Edna Fridley, and Charles Kreischer. The collections are priceless and we hope you feel the same. Our plan is to share them with you. And after 30 years in the canyon country, my collection of images is slowly being archived as well.<\/div>\n
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And look for a new feature, “The Way it Was in Moab This Morning,” <\/a>as I transport myself into Moab’s past and report on a much simpler time. In the current issue I found myself<\/a> in the middle of the very hot summer of 1936. While much has changed since then, you’d be amazed how much the politics have not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

We feel that we offer more honest news, information, and history about Southeast Utah than ever. But with the exception of a handful of longtime advertisers, we now survive on the financial support of our individual readers<\/b>. We must ask our readers to step up and help.<\/b> Every component of The Zephyr<\/i> web site is free to<\/div>\n
everyone and, as long as we stay alive, it will stay that way. But we can’t keep going without you.<\/div>\n
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So please, if you think The Zephyr<\/i> still has value and still makes a difference–if only a tiny one—consider supporting our little publication. We’re not quite ready to disappear. Not quite.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thanks,
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\u00a0Here’s how you can keep us going…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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JOIN THE BACKBONE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WHEN YOU JOIN THE BACKBONE or RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
you’ll receive a complimentary signed copy of BRAVE NEW WEST
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And if you send us a good head & shoulders photo of yourself, Stiles<\/div>\n
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the book.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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One year Backbone membership: $100<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Three years: $275\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
(NOTE: You can also support The Zephyr with smaller contributions…follow the link below)\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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You can use your credit card through PayPal at our web site:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Or we still take checks:<\/i><\/strong><\/div>\n
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