{"id":37673,"date":"2018-09-18T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37673"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:34:52","slug":"37673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/37673\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Huntsmans can&#8217;t afford to sponsor arts coverage in Utah, the Rossiters certainly can&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 Bytes was on everyone&#8217;s lips earlier this year when the Salt Lake Tribune dropped their arts coverage and threw up a paywall. Where was the arts community to turn for coverage of their activities now that the daily newspaper was throwing in the towel?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, 15 Bytes, that e-zine that crept on to the scene 17 years ago. They&#8217;re still doing their schtick. Growing even. Sure, they don&#8217;t have tens of thousands of readers, and you can&#8217;t even get a print version, but, hey, they&#8217;re our last hope.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s the thing: if the Huntsman family can&#8217;t find enough spare change to continue to cover the arts scene, the Rossiter family certainly can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, have you seen what I drive?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whatidrive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37674\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whatidrive-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whatidrive.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whatidrive-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/whatidrive-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m the head honcho at this outfit. Just imagine our underpaid writers -they&#8217;d be happy if we could reimburse them for using one of those ubiquitous rent-a-scooters to get to their assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why we need your financial support.<\/p>\n<p>Our overhead (such as it is), taxes, website expenses, computers, cameras . . . all that jazz is covered by grants from ZAP, Salt Lake Arts Council, UDAM and the Doctorow Family Foundation (and we gratefully recognize their support).\u00a0 In addition, we get financial support from the underwriters who appear in the right-hand column of our posts (so, please thank them). But we need your support as well!<\/p>\n<p>Every dollar we raise from our readers during our fall fundraiser goes directly to our coverage of the arts scene over the next 6 months.\u00a0The number of articles we publish is directly up to you.<\/p>\n<p>You can use Venmo to send a donation to: @Artistsofutah<\/p>\n<p>You can use Paypal to send a donation to: webmaster@artistsofutah.org<\/p>\n<p>Use this button to send a donation with a credit card (it will be a Paypal page, but there will be an option to use a credit card):<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" enctype=\"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/> <input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"G6BNPNNURPDQN\" \/> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or keep the Post Office in business by sending a donation to:<br \/>\nArtists of Utah<br \/>\nP.O. Box 526292<br \/>\nSLC, UT 84152<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nShawn Rossiter<br \/>\nEditor, 15 Bytes<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks to those who have already helped us cover Utah&#8217;s art scene:<\/p>\n<p>Jared Alleman<br \/>\nTerrece\u00a0Beesley<br \/>\nAnnie Boyer<br \/>\nKelly Brooks<br \/>\nSusan Bromhold<br \/>\nConnie Borup<br \/>\nSuzanne Boskoff<br \/>\nLewis Crawford<br \/>\nPatrice Corneli<br \/>\nCindy Clark<br \/>\nAnn Davis<br \/>\nLaurie Downing<br \/>\nStefanie Dykes<br \/>\nKaren Elrod<br \/>\nJim Frazer<br \/>\nJeff Juhlin<br \/>\nSheryl Gillilan<br \/>\nLydia Gravis<br \/>\nRay Halls<br \/>\nPatricia Kimball<br \/>\nLenka Konopasek<br \/>\nSusan Jarvis<br \/>\nWilliam Littig<br \/>\nHikmet Loe<br \/>\nSteven Labrum<br \/>\nMichael Larsen<br \/>\nKathryn Lindquist<br \/>\nFrank McEnitre<br \/>\nSue Martin<br \/>\nJoy Nunn<br \/>\n4Life Research<br \/>\nAaron Garrett<br \/>\nEmily Larsen<br \/>\nKristina Lenzi<br \/>\nErica Olsen<br \/>\nDavid Pace<br \/>\nNick Pedersen<br \/>\nRonald Priddis<br \/>\nAndrew Rice<br \/>\nShawn Porter<br \/>\nPaisley Rekdal<br \/>\nJenni Reed<br \/>\nDaniel Smith<br \/>\nNancy Vorm<br \/>\nCrystal Young-Otterstrom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Bytes was on everyone&#8217;s lips earlier this year when the Salt Lake Tribune dropped their arts coverage and threw up a paywall. Where was the arts community to turn for coverage of their activities now that the daily newspaper was throwing in the towel? 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