FTC Wants Your Input on Journalism Sustainability

Public Journalism Network ^ | OCt 18, 2009 | Leonard Witt

[JaguarXKE]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is planning a Public Workshop/Roundtable on December 1-2, 2009 entitled: From Town Crier to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? Your comments are invited.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman John Liebowitz says by “…bringing together stakeholders — bloggers, journalists, economists, university faculty — who have thought about this issue, we might be able to come up with some ideas about what policy makers or lawmakers might think about doing, or refraining from doing, going forward.”

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[JaguarXKE]

I'm just curious what folks think about the idea of a federal regulatory agency having anything to do with what is supposed to be a Free Press?

[Psycho_Bunny]

"Screw them" is my first thought.

Well, the nice version of my first thought, actually.

[FourPeas]

Ah, I think I understand: their goal is planned free speech. Now why didn’t the framers of our constitution think of that?

[Common Sense 101]

“FTC Wants Your Input on Journalism Sustainability”

I’m against it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Federal Trade Commission is worried about journalism ?

[tbw2]

The moment speech is planned, it isn’t free.

[Gondring]

I'm just curious what folks think about the idea of a federal regulatory agency having anything to do with what is supposed to be a Free Press?

I'm against it...that's why I like this idea.

Get rid of the taxes.