VEXNEWS is news free for all.

We’re VEX because that’s as close to Rupert Murdoch’s FOX as we could get without having legal trouble.

We love FOX NEWS, even when we don’t agree with it. This news service is our homage to its inspiration.

We’re VEX because vex means to annoy people and that’s precisely what we’ll be doing when we’re doing our job. Speaking truth to power. Afflicting the comfortable. Comforting the afflicted.

VEX also means debating, provoking, confronting, arguing and irking and we’ll be doing plenty of that too.

This is what journalism should be. Indeed for most of our history it has been except for its modern odious iteration when it pretended to be something it wasn’t: infallible, uninfluenced by cultural bias, pure and omniscient. It’s never been any of those things.

With lefty dominated newsrooms being slashed and burned across the world, we understand the dimension of our responsibility. We are nothing less than the future of news. Not on our own of course. Our voice should be just part of the beautiful cacophony. But we will be heard.

VEXNEWS is ‘free’ because we cherish freedom. Freedom from the fundamentalisms of our time, from the Islamists to the extreme Greenists and all those in between who struggle to understand that the vast majority of people just want to live their lives with a minimum of unnecessary meddling from others.

We’re free because this web service is priceless.

Free for all because our approach is rigorous, courageous and at times perhaps reminiscent of televised wrestling matches (we prefer caged style).

Dictionary.com says ‘free for all’ means:

1. a fight, argument, contest, etc., open to everyone and usually without rules.
2. any competition or contested situation that is disordered, impulsive, or out of control: a free-for-all at the buffet table.
3. Informal. any enterprise or field of endeavor in which various companies, countries, participants, etc., compete without restriction: a price-cutting free-for-all among local stores.
–adjective
4. open to everyone.

And that’s precisely what we’ll be.