As usual, they'll gloss over the real stories of 2007, because the stories that have grave implications for our consumers are also bad for business. For this reason alone what you would have got would be dumbed down reporting, advertorials, and promotionals for the public by a corporate-supported barrage of spin.

We try not to do that to important consumer issues and bring you the truth as it is. In an effort to ensure that 2008 brings the lasting change we know is possible, Consumer VOICE is committed to bringing cutting-edge investigative reporting and passionate editorial writing to our readers on issues that will affect the quality of their lives on a daily basis. Our comparative tests are carried out at great cost in time and money both, so that you make informed choices and not those influenced by aggressive advertising and other similar marketing arm-twisting tactics.

But the kind of information that you admire us for doesn't come for free. We need your help to continue our fierce independent reporting in 2008—so please, show your support for Consumer VOICE by making a subscription in the new year now. Subscribe now and choose to cap that with a friendship bond with us by supporting our Editorial Corpus Fund .

As a Consumer VOICE reader, you know better than most that 2007 was the year of climate change, abused executive power, retail stores, malls sprouting like mushrooms across metropolises and complicated and unsafe array of choices, post-globalisation, for consumers. You know this because you read it all in Consumer VOICE. The corporate media gives readers celebrity intrigue, Bollywood junk, shallow, glossy reporting on most issues because they know it sells magazines and ads. But in Consumer VOICE, we are more interested in telling the truth than selling spin because we need nothing else but you, our subscribers to support us. We don't need the glossy misleading ads, the hype or fake sensationalism, to connect to you.

Because of this though, we've rarely ever broken even in over 10 years of publishing. Subscriptions are our bread and butter, but as of now, they simply aren't enough to cover the cost of delivering the monthly at your door step. We rely on your support every step of the way, and so we are hoping you'll continue your support by taking subscriptions in the New Year— today. Your generosity makes more of a difference than you know: Just in 2007 alone—an especially difficult year when we faced the greatest cash crunch in our history -- your support allowed us
to avoid serious setbacks to our continuity.

Thanks to your generous support—we're still here—and we're still continuing to grow. Because of you, we have withstood the maligning and the utter misuse of a powerful tool like the RTI against us and have been able to prove our accountability under close scrutiny. With 2008 just having made its entry into all our lives, we hope you'll continue to support us, so that this time next year, we can look back together and celebrate the year in which we all helped to put Consumer VOICE not only back on course but onto a fast track towards better service for you.

Thank you again for being a member of VOICE community.

We welcome you to step in to 2008 with us as responsible and aware consumers.