Congratulations on another wonderful recnt edition of The Echo full of inspiring pages displaying the wonders of consumer capitalism and the free market.
Three large music festivals with international musicians requiring huge inputs of capital, organisation and technology were advertised. Six beautiful pages extolling the bliss of private property and the brilliance of the banking industry that helps us to own our own part of paradise. The majority of The Echo is dedicated to all those small business owners selling their music, their art, their skill and experience in preparing and selling delicious food in restaurants and clubs, their ability to promote health and wellness through many modalities, and this all happens through the capitalist free market and advertising their wares in the media – such as The Echo.
This edition also demonstrates the marriage of democracy and the pres with four pages of advertisements by political parties explaining why voters should elect their candidates in the weekend state elections. Our system is so brilliant that payments for these paeans to capitalism allow The Echo to continue being printed, to pay the wages of its workers and to provide profits to its owners and give social discontents a chance to publicise their views.
A win-win all around.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
