[Buckeye McFrog]

tells me that in all of their beltway cocktail parties the MSM elite are buzzing about how they’ll all be delivering pizzas in a few years if current trends continue

[econjack]

Oh, perfect...Time to pack up and move to New Zealand.

[Terry Mross]

They want this so they can get a government check. They’d all love to work for NPR.

[poobear]

Emboldened little Commies aren’t they? They have the nerve to call us Fascists!

[Cheerio]

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I thought we already had a state-run media....

[mjp]

a more valuable service if the American media becomes the de facto property of the federal government.

Just another sign of the intellectual disintegration of libtards

[newheart]

I’m pretty sure that George Orwell intended his writings to be cautionary tales. But these delusionaries think he was producing “how-to” books.

[Dahoser]

We should think about American journalism as a mixed system, where the mission is to get the balance right.

To me a key priority is to strengthen our public broadcasting role in the global arena. In today's rapidly globalizing and interconnected world, other countries are developing a strong media presence. In addition to the BBC, there is China's CCTV and Xinhua news, as well as Qatar's Al Jazeera. The U.S. government's international broadcasters, like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, were developed during the Cold War as tools of our anticommunist foreign policy. In a sign of how anachronistic our system is in a digital age, these broadcasters are legally forbidden from airing within the U.S.

This system needs to be revised and its resources consolidated and augmented with those of NPR and PBS to create an American World Service that can compete with the BBC and other global broadcasters. The goal would be an American broadcasting system with full journalistic independence that can provide the news we need. Let's demonstrate great journalism's essential role in a free and dynamic society.

I was so born too soon.

[dfwgator]

“…I propose…an American World Service…”, writes Bollinger. “A media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highest quality American journalism to the global forum.” And that “sufficient funding” will be provided by the federal government. From taxpayers.

This guy has never heard of "Voice of America"?

[madison10]

Probably 95% of our media is ALREADY “state run.” Blasted commies.

[infowarrior]

“…I propose…an American World Service…”, writes Bollinger. “A media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highest quality American journalism to the global forum.” And that “sufficient funding” will be provided by the federal government. From taxpayers.

One supposes further that he proposes that this American World Service go by a shorter, more 'catchier' name, something, like, perhaps, "TRUTH"?

the infowarrior
For those who might not get it, the Russian word for truth is... "Pravda"...

[Cyman]

Not all kooks push shopping carts and hang around street corners.

[texmexis best]

Vivian Schiller wanted to do this type of thing and bring in all American Journalism into the PBS family.

Shows just how rough J-school graduates have it. Not a degree you want to have on your resume.

[LostPassword]

Did they leave out part of his quote or was he smart enough to not complete it aloud?

A media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highest quality American journalism to the global forum. And control what they say

[longtermmemmory]

we have that now, CNN, MSNBC, FNC, CBS all state run.

All newspapers sift through the NYC priority grinder.

If anything we need LESS media centralizing.

[LibLieSlayer]

The media is already a state run propaganda arm of the dnc.

LLS

[SaraJohnson]

This might have a lot to do with the media’s murderous hysteria over the Tea Party taking power in the House.

They were making noises about Obammy bailing them all out when he first came into office. John McMedia wouldn’t mind.

[GSWarrior]

As Dick Engberg would say, “Oh my!!”