Radical Media Bailout Urged By 0bama Appointee!
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
United States
April 17, 2009 8:49am CST
Rosa Brooks has been appointed to work at the Pentagon, but not before she published her last article in the LA Times urging a government bailout of newspapers complete with government licensing and regulation of journalists!
If the news media had properly done their jobs and accurately reported the news in a non-biased manner, people would probably still be buying papers. But when they became in the tank for the left wing radical agenda, people eventually woke up and decided that they were not goign to pay for propaganda thinly disguised as "journalism". We don't need our media to become state run, like the Pravda of the USSR was. What we need are reporters who are actually going to report in FACTS without adding their own spin to it to further someone's agenda!
These papers are dying because they neglected to do their JOB of reporting facts, and instead became shills for the leftist agenda. They DESERVE to fail, they did it to themselves! They do not deserve one thin dime of taxpayer money, and they certainly would not be servants of the PEOPLE when they become controlled by the government!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/obama-appointee-suggests-radical-plan-newspaper-bailout/
What do you think about this?
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
17 Apr 09
What makes them think people would buy their papers after they get a bail out. These are supposed to be educated people yet they don't seem to understand the first of all, people don't buy newspapers that much anymore and second, people that want to inform themselves with truth and facts aren't going to buy theirs unless they want to paper train their dogs.
I'm surprised the Global Warming nuts aren't all for letting them fall, just think about how many trees will be saved if they aren't printing their crap.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
17 Apr 09
It looks like we might have to pay for their papers even though we don't get it and don't want it? If we do bail them out than are they going to give us free papers? I could use it on my compost pile.
License? What the hell do they need a license for? It looks to me like they are just trying to get rid of FOX news that's all. Well, if I'm left with only bias news shows like MSNBC I'm canceling my television cable. I wouldn't watch those losers if it was the only program on television.
I'm so sick of this "change" administration already, how are we going to get through the next 4 years Kitty?
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
I honestly don't know. For all we know, that 1000 page porkulus bill that NOBODY read before passing has a clause buried in there somewhere declaring 0bama "President for life" and banning future elections.
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@Little_Stormy (6883)
• United States
17 Apr 09
I'm wearing new socks!!!!!!!
cool...... huh????
*snaps AngryKitty's bra and runs away* hahaha!
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
Just wrap them in some newspaper, that's about all those are good for lately anyway.
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
New socks won't help the stank if ya don't wash yer feet first! P.U.!!!
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
17 Apr 09
Like the banks and other business not all the news papers and new shows are in trouble. It seems that the ones that report only one side are suffering while the ones that report the news with out comment are doing fine. Let the market work and the good papers will survive and the poor ones will fail.
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
I agree, and not just about the papers either, there NEVER should have been ANY bailouts for banks, automakers or any other industry, the good companies survive and the ones operating stupidly fail.
@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
17 Apr 09
Granting licenses that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary? Is she daft? Since when should you have a license to practice your first amendment right freely? Why does she insist it will be "independent reporting", when a license which "encourages" the right way to write journalistically will have to be issued?
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
I can see how implementation of her proposal would cause things to get really bad, really fast for not just the press, but for regular Americans to speak freely.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
17 Apr 09
Rosa Brooks can push for this all she likes but I don't see this one getting by the PEOPLE. The L.A. Times, among other pitiful excuses for newspapers, are failing because THEY have failed the American people by turning what was once a proud institution into a joke. As has already been mentioned, the availability of news online has also cost newspapers readership so a bail out will do nothing to return subscribers who found reading the paper online more convenient.
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
17 Apr 09
I still buy a paper nearly every day, becasue I like sitting at my kitchen table and reading it, but I had to change papers, due to the incompetence and flat out bias that became apparent in the NY Daily news (which I read for YEARS) this past fall. It was really obvious and disgusting. So now I read the NY Post, which is not afraid to cover an issue regardless of who may not like what facts are brought to light. They have a very lively letters to the editor section, since they will print letters representing ALL sides of any issue, unlike the Daily News which in the past year became very one sided in it's reporting and also in what it is willing to print from readers.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
17 Apr 09
Congress will have a hard time passing another bail out plan. Americans are sick and tired of bail outs.
As for the newpapers.....well they should not be bailed out for a couple of reasons..
1. It is called supply and demand. Most people are getting tehir news online now instead of from buying a newpaper. So they need to move with the times or get left behind. IF they choose to be left behind....then they deserve to fail.
2. It would be the end of the freedom of press. The government would control the press. Therefore who would speak out against it?
They governmetn will push for it to happen. They want control of everything. I am already hearing of bail out companies that want to pay back the money with interest so they can get out from under government control and the government is refusing to take the money back. Why? Because htey want the control. If this keep up and hte american people allow this to happen there will not be a private sector left. It will all be nationalized.
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