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Posted on 09/25/2009 6:53:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
That is exactly right. If you take money from them, they own you.
You got it.
When you owe the bank a pile of money, they’ll
keep “helping you out” at least for a while.
So the indebted press will scratch the government’s
back, and the government will keep the press afloat.
It’ll be a mutual admiration society.
0bama and his handlers and sycophants want a repeat of either the USSR or Nazi Germany. Probably Nazi Germany since so many of them are perverts.
And have “mandatory family subscriptions”. Rules will be adopted to specify the minimum required frequency of publication. Once daily? Both morning and evening editions?
I smell a Mark Lloyd idea somewhere in this twisted plan...
Maybe everybody should have to take a test every week or every month--something like that--to make sure everybody's read the information--and not only read it but committed it to memory!
Say, here's another idea: We could put reverse monitors on all TV sets--so agents of the News Czar can watch in everybody's home to make sure everybody's reading the news! (and nothing else)
That can be expanded to make sure nobody says anything...well...you know...not nice...or does anything he shouldn't...
How about that!
Amendment I: Freedom of speech, religion, press, petition and assembly.After seeing the effects of government control of GM, the banks, and financial institutions, I would say that it is unconstitutional for the government to do anything regarding bailing out newspapers (and NBC perhaps?), as that would be seen as an abridgment of the freedom of speech and of the press.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Any law that financially enhances one segment of the press can be seen as an abridgment of freedom of the other segments of the press that are not bailed out.
"Freedom of the press" actually means the right of the People to a free press, not the right of the New York Times to exist in perpetuity. The People will continue to have a free press whether the NYT is there or not.
If We The People are to have freedom of speech, that must include the choice as to which voices we want to hear. If newspapers cannot, on their own, amass enough of a marketplace for their voice, then they deserve to fade away and let another marketplace for speech take their place.
-PJ
True. Which is why we shuold have an equally high and robustly enforced 'wall of separation' between media and state. The media now wields the influence that once only the Church commanded, and a non-independent media is a dagger aimed at the heart of democracy.
Oh, I'm sure a bureaucrat will distinguish the worthy from the unworthy using some kind of vague, incomprehensible regulatory guidelines with little practical possibility of appeal. In other words, the party in power will decide which news stories are taxable and which are not.
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