Examiner.com

Check it out. Would you want to read the Examiner after seeing this type of contributing reviewer? He is, also, known as the cut and paste from your program reviewer.

https://www.theproducersperspective.com/my_weblog/2015/11/when-a-freelance-critic-goes-too-far.html

http://www.hesherman.com/2015/11/02/a-seattle-theatre-critic-flies-past-an-ethical-boundary/

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/seattle-theatre-critic-offers-to-sell-his-extra-ticket-on-craigslist-and-to-incorporate-guests-opinion-in-his-review-*******

A terrible content farm that lets anyone write whatever they want.

Yet people actually use them as a source of news, which is disturbing.

Examiner is not paying what it says it will to writers Beware - Anyone that goes to the examiner.com web site and signs on to write for them should beware. They promise their writers one-cent (yep) per page view, then when you do write for them, they make all kinds of excuses why the page views and payment are not in sync.

Examiner.com is abusing people for their own gain. They want you to write, have ads pop in that can be accidentally clicked on and are very annoying, and they make money off of it.

Avoid them like the plague!

I wrote for them for Examiner.com for nearly six years and in that whole time, even though my articles always had a great deal of views, I made a whopping $10 a month, and that is being generous. If you don't care about money, though, this is the website for you because trust me, you won't make any here.

At first, writing for them was fine. The editors that Examiner.com employs are pretty useless and don't even read things properly. They once told me that I spelled the word "your" incorrectly, which I did not since the word I was using, within the context of the sentence, was in fact "you're." They probably had to justify their pay with corrections, so they always made stupid corrections like capitalizing words even when they should not have been capitalized. The number of times I had to re-submit articles for stupid corrections that their so-called editors made became far more trouble than it was worth to write for the peanuts this website paid. An editor of a high school or junior high school newspaper could have done the job just as well as these so-called professionals.

Their ads are now all over the place, making it extremely difficult to load and read articles. The community pages, where we Examiners used to speak with each other and air our grievances, was also taken away because pretty much everyone who had written for the site for any length of time would say how awful the website had become. Incentives were once offered as a way for the writers to make extra money by publishing an article with a video, slideshow, or a certain number of photos. Those incentives are nowhere to be found now. They are less concerned about having a useful, functional, and user-friendly website than they are with having ads that make them money (which certainly doesn't go to any of the writers) and a social media presence.

Since I wrote for Examiner.com for years, I once recognized the names of other long-term writers for the site who had a strong presence on the site. Most of those writers have since moved on, which I am about to do now. If you want to write, start your own blog. You will have more of a chance of making money with that than you do with Examiner.com these days.

UPDATE:

Well, now since Examiner.com has folded, I guess that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about their flawed business model.

I started writing for the Examiner about three years ago and it started out great. There were always issues with over-zealous editors who were critically picky about every small mistake, like paragraphs too short or too long or capitalizing Boston Marathon when they said you should write it as Boston marathon, etc.
Once I got over the slaps in the face and my readership picked up, I was bringing in an easy $85 a month, but in 2013 things started changing for the worse. Pop up adds were everywhere. I wrote an article on Christianity and morality and up pops a half naked picture of a breasty woman at the beach... really?!
I got ad blocker and never had to see or hear the automatic video pop-ups, so all was good on that front, but then they took away the community share page because all anyone did was say how badly Examiner.com stunk and so they stopped us from communicating with each other and then about six months later, they took away our local email-able editors and refused to respond to questions and made submitting tickets as difficult as submitting photographs.
Everything about writing for them became painful. They tried to get you to use their pictures and not your own. They limited the number of photos you could use and made you fill out a separate form for each photograph and stacked them in a slideshow rather than let you place them next to the content which told you more about the photos.
They are now removing articles and forcing long-time writers to submit to reviews again and saying that they do not want writers to publish anything over 1100 words.
They used to offer incentives where they would list titles for your area and if you claimed the title you got an automatic $2 to $5 added to your pay, but now, although they say they still offer this service, when you click to see what they have, it is almost always empty.
Basically this is a company that started out good, but is now nothing more than a sensation driven pop up add revenue machine.
They do not promote your articles unless they are sensation driven and they leave up old content for five or more years and promote it over new content.
They also do not tell you how well your article is doing or how many people click on it so you have no idea what you are really earning and they are currently wiping out the histories of past earnings so you have nothing to compare them to.
They really work hard at making writers feel little and unappreciated and it will be surprising if they survive another two years.
Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere if you want to make a fair living off your on-line writing.
This company does not make it easy for you to succeed and is user unfriendly, always changing to benefit themselves and hurt writers. I think it is time for me to bail. They had a good thing going, but I think the good went and the bad is now the norm.

Nitrogen enriched gasoline is bad - This is a good article about Shell's new nitrogen enriched gasoline. It contains several additives that release 200x more pollution, destroy paint, eat fuel lines and plastic, while promoting fungi growth in your fuel system. Shell worked with automanufacturers to develop a way for us to keep giving them money.

Read full article here:

http://www.examiner.com/x-4824-Tampa-Sports-Car-Examiner~y2009m3d22-Nitrogen-Enriched-Gasoline