NEWS: OVERVIEW

iPower.CLUB, LLC – ZIP Code Formatted News / Independent Business Owners

HELLO – I’m M. L. “Mickey” Valentine, Senior Managing Director of iPower.CLUB, LLC. We want to share with you a unique business opportunity for News reporters, journalists and affiliates, plus our thoughts on how BlockChain technology will soon revolutionize the entire News industry.

The journalistic process involves continually gathering, documenting, analyzing, editing and disseminating vast quantities of information and data, but the News industry’s current business model is broken. Newspaper and magazine editors today are all especially worried. Their operating expenses continue to spiral out of control, while low cost but powerful social media giants – though often devoid of any true journalistic merit – keep eroding and eating into their market share. The result is that News bureaus across the nation are closing their doors, local papers are being forced to downsize even further, and even other digital-only publications are finding it necessary to down-size and lay off news staff.

The keys to generating revenue from the News have now passed to social media platforms leaving news organizations and their consumers at the mercy of skewed Search Engine results and biased News Feed algorithms. Meanwhile, attention spans and personal interest in the News is dropping in the ongoing, zero-sum struggle to attract readership. Clickbait journalism is also running rampant, and ever more polarized reporting is sowing both discord and an attitude of genuine distrust of the media, while much of the actual news of the day – local, national and global – goes under reported or unreported.

The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Kathrine Viner, was quite right when she wrote, “chasing down cheap clicks at the expense of accuracy undermines the value of journalism.” So, how can we answer this threat to the security, vitality, and success of our democracy and at the same time establish a sustainable way to finance continued production of the trusted kind of journalism so critical to our republic? We believe independent news reporters and journalists serving up “real news for real people in real time” is the answer. So, our goal is to ZIP Code Footprint a huge, nationwide network of individuals interested in advancing timely, accurate, unbiased News as they work together cooperatively as Independent Business Owners to build a new, disruptive, national News company.

The power of such a large, scalable and sustainable independent News organization would be unrivaled, especially so when further augmented by the BCIpower™ BlockChain system under development by iPower.CLUB, LLC. Incorporating BlockChain technology and applications into the journalistic process will help ensure proper credit is given to the person who reported the News, plus provide for lightning fast verification and archival/retrieval of all those historical news reports. Thus, BlockChain implementation will vastly improve the veracity and factual nature of future news and information reporting and help bring back strict adherence to proper journalistic standards. The result will be News reports that people are genuinely interested in reading and hearing once again – and will thus pay a reasonable price to consume.

Although working in the News industry while simultaneously empowering it with BlockChain technology is a truly extraordinary opportunity in of itself, we are determined to make this opportunity even better for our members by ensuring the highest moral and ethical standards are adhered to throughout every IBO Division – all of which are equity based ESOP’s, cross-pollinated and driven by “the-wind-of-capitalism” and designed to be Sustainable Economic Enterprise Development Systems (S.E.E.D.S.) ventures. We expect each of our IBO Division’s to become a shining example of social capitalism, great business innovation and success which others in the company will emulate. Frankly, we believe people coming together and working cooperatively in the News industry is as crucial to our nation’s continued success as a thriving democracy and as critical to our republic as it is for each of us individually as Independent Business Owners. Ultimately, we expect a ZIP Code linked, BlockChain enabled economy like that which we are in the process of building will prove to be even more vital on a global basis – perhaps providing solutions for the eventual global eradication of hunger and other issues of poverty.

Through iPower.CLUB/News, we are providing a chance for you to positively impact the planet by offering you an opportunity to help build a new, sustainable, highly scalable BlockChain technology company and economy. Join iPower.CLUB today and be a part of this singularly unique opportunity. Together we can implement this unique new business model, first monetizing the USA, and then systematically expanding as we ‘foot-print’ the ZIP Codes of the world via cutting edge BlockChain technology. In doing so, we will all be helping to usher in the stability, common-sense and trust the world is going to need for generations to come in future transactions of every kind.

We are forming teams of non-partisan, individuals now who desire to be a part of a future like that in a vibrant free financial republic. Please let me thank you in advance for joining us on this profitable and vital journey into the future.

—Mickey Valentine