June 3, 2002

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT RFW

A MESSAGE FROM NICHOLAS REGUSH, EDITOR OF REDFLAGSWEEKLY.COM

We really must stop meeting this way. But please read on. This is important!

This is about how you can personally benefit enormously by becoming a member of the RFW CLUB, and at same time help this Web site to stay alive and grow.

One reason I am writing to you today is because many of you have sent emails wishing us well and telling us how much you enjoy visiting RFW. And it shows, because our numbers have been rising steadily, allowing us to outpace many health sites on the internet that have been around for years.

With continued progress, RFW can become a vital force for free expression in the health arena and can potentially have some real clout in challenging the status quo.

When I left ABC News, my hope was to launch a Web site that could offer people a unique, intelligent and provocative mix of columns and stories. I left mainstream TV news behind because I felt that it had become narrow in scope and offensive in its cartoon-like approach to complex and controversial issues in health.

For the past six months, I have almost entirely funded RFW on my own, except for some help earlier on from a few friends. Many of you have written to ask who funds RFW. Now you know.

But I cannot do this indefinitely. My plan for RFW included finding ways to develop it in such a way that it would not have to rely on the usual - ads and various products having little to do with the editorial content. I wanted this site to prosper on the basis of premium information services, above and beyond total free access to this site’s various editions and archives.

The first offering was the HEALTH NEWS ANALYZER, which is slowly beginning to help create a potential financial foundation for this site’s emergence as a major player on the internet.

Last week, we unveiled the RFW CLUB, which provides members with an unprecedented range of information services - the kind you cannot possibly get anywhere else on the internet.

One of the benefits to members is access to RFW expertise. Only members get their questions answered about health issues. This feature was included in the RFW CLUB package because many people who write to us ask us to provide them with answers to questions about a wide range of health issues.

Because of this kind of demand, we also offered the RFW REPORTS. These are documents you can purchase when your need for information goes well beyond the short and concise answers to questions we can provide to you when you become a RFW CLUB member.

So, if you haven’t read the details on our various packages, you might consider doing so.

But first and foremost, we are looking to have an initial core RFW CLUB membership of 500 people. This represents a fraction of the visitors who come to the site each week. Consider this a campaign. This is what it will take to keep the philosophy and vision behind RFW alive and growing. We are a long way from achieving that goal.

You should subscribe to the RFW CLUB if you want exclusive information that is not available anywhere else on the internet.

And you can, in the process, demonstrate that you really care about our site and the unique information mix it provides and want to see it develop to its full potential.

NICHOLAS REGUSH