What will be in the future is unknown to any of us. We shall see how this develops, I would not panic here though, even though the main owner of the Examiner is not one that I would like to generate profits for given the fact he supports people such as Bush and religious groups with those profits. Nevertheless, The Examiner did buy NP to make money and business dictates that there may pressure NP into a certain direction, however, they won't shoot them self into the foot either and lose their contributing base and readers nor compromise the reputation, because people will just move on and leave NP. 
I think it is in the best interest of the Examiner to leave NP alone and just cross link with them and I suppose that may be the intend here as well. What does remain to be seen here is more a moral and ethical question for each member rather then the worry that NP may start to sensor postings. I would have preferred the approach of "OhmyNews" that asked Members to ship in or become investors and partners. I would have done so for my part had we been given the opportunity. 

We shall see how this develops. 

I don't want any of us to get ahead of ourselves here, nothing is being taken away from anyone. We will not be deleting the site or anyone's account unnecessarily, so you don't have to worry about your material disappearing.

We are still here, yes there will be some changes afoot, as there always are with any new venture, but please don't anticipate bad news. This is supposed to be a good thing; we all worked hard to get to this point, and when I say all of us I mean all our dedicated and wonderful members as well as staff.

The news about this business transaction is viewed in different ways.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090901/technology/us_canada_media_industry_internet_examiner_nowpublic

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5htI2SyQFqr-2T3MwRPGlH7bv4GkgD9AET9B80

Some what not surprising though.  I am not certain at this point wish is right here.

As Corporal Jones used to say in that long-running British sitcom 'Dad's Army', "Don't panic (Mr. Mainwaring). Don't panic." Besides if Now Public goes belly up there are always plenty of alternatives out there.

BTW where does the figure so often quoted that Now Public has '185,000 contributors in more than 160 countries' actually come from?

I wanted to express concerns and doubts, as many may have. That is another thing I like about NP, is that one doesn't have to tip-toe around here. It's real stories written by real people.

Thank you staff for responding and reassuring us.

I am hopeful and optimistic about the change of hands. NowPublic must be doing something right. 

The first few paragraphs from an article I wrote today...

In the world of politics, citizen journalism on the internet has become to look very dangerous, in its context and ability to attack political indoctrination and propaganda. The normal news media can be controlled powerful politically motivated businessmen have bought out most news out lets. These out lets are used to brainwash the public to believe in differing forms of politics world wide.

To days news media is mainly controlled by capitalist, liberals or socialists, in the very beginning when Internet Two took forum users into the world of internet community’s web based citizen journalism was born. The site owners had no political motives it was all about making money out of advertising.

Thanks for your inputs on the issue.

Dinesh Singh Rawat

Looks like Facebook and Twitter are the only holdouts so far.