Citizens' Press Documentation

The Mission Statement: The main goals of the Citizens' Press are:

1. To inform the reader about local, national, and international issues and news through in depth analysis in editorial styled articles. This will be achieved through constructive criticism carried out on specific reports of news that appear in the corporate and independent press as well as editorial pieces examining original news stories.

2. To inform the reader through analysis from multiple and clearly identified political points of view. The articles will be subjected to editorial review to ensure that there is consistency within the article with regards to the singular political point of view.

3. To inform the reader on what the differing points of view are, where they are coming from, and where these ideologies lead.

4. To allow for informed and rational discussion of issues through constructive dialogue. Responses to specific articles from opposing economic/social ideologies will be encouraged. All articles will have to follow a specific ideology and will be limited in the use of rhetorical statements that are not accompanied by either an explanation or examples.

5. To systematically avoid and challenge the Propaganda Model of corporate journalism. This will be achieved through analyses that point out the underlying assumptions the reader (and media) has on issues and challenging these assumptions. Specifically this will be carried out by liberalizing limits on the length of articles, allowing responses to all articles in the form of comments and editorials, as well as making independent news available to the reader. It is not the intended goal of the site to challenge the Propaganda Model in every article. Instead, the site as a whole should give the reader access to multiple viewpoints on each topic and allow the reader to know specifically where those views are coming from.
All articles are to be maintained under a GNU-like or Creative Commons license depending on the Author's wishes.

Editorial Policy

Anyone may submit an article to the Citizens' Press; this publication is not just for the academic community. The scope of this publication is intended to involve, and be relevant to, the broader community. We strongly encourage anyone with an opinion, who is willing to keep the following criteria in mind, to write for the Citizen’s Press. Please refer to the publishing process below for more details.

Our editorial policy serves only to keep potential articles relevant to the mandate of the Citizens' Press. The editorial process, like the writing and submission process is open to anyone in the community willing to participate. In effect, you the individual, decides his or her own level of involvement with the Citizens' Press, from just reading to writing and editing articles.

Comments: Anyone, whether registered or not with the Citizen’s Press, can contribute comments toward any article on the site. Comments are not subject to the editorial process. However they are still subject to Canadian Criminal Code restrictions on hate literature.

N.B.: We have to abide by the laws of the Canadian Criminal Code and as such we will not publish hate literature or other classes of writings that are outlined by this code and will abide by the obligation of the Code.

N.B.: The Citizens' Press will not be held accountable for anything that is published on the site. This is an open site and as such if you disagree with anything that is published you are welcome to respond via comment or article. Articles will not be removed unless there is a legal reason to do so.

Publishing Process:

Register yourself on the site (citizenspress.org). Aliases are allowed but not recommended.
Login to the site with your user name and password.
Click on the link on the left that says “create content”.

Copyright: All authors maintain all of their rights pertaining to their works. The Citizen’s Press should be seen simply as a place to publish the article in public view and to receive feedback. The Citizen’s Press and its articles follow a Creative Commons license or a GNU-like license of the author's choice.

We recommend http://www.leftnews.org for your daily news. The reason for this is because Leftnews.org is a project of the Citizens' Press community.