Democrat Bailout of Dying Liberal Print Media?

houston conservative ^ | 1/01/2009 | Will Malven

[Sudetenland]

File this one under the "I should've seen this coming" category; Connecticut State Representative Frank Nicastro (D-Bristol/Forestville) is petitioning the Connecticut state government to bailout his local newspapers, the Bristol Press and the New Britain Herald.

This is the first such effort and it is strictly a local effort by Representative Nicastro and some of his fellow state legislators, but I predict that it won't be the last. With all of the large Liberal newspapers now struggling to survive due to dire reductions in revenue and readership, watch for a push from Democrats in Congress to follow suit.

[Sudetenland]

Tis is a vanity, sorry I forgot to state it.

[SolidWood]

Why? This is not a vanity, as it’s a)relevant and b)sourced.

[Erik Latranyi]

Here, this source makes it legit.....as legit as Reuters....

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE4BU53T20081231?sp=true

[Sudetenland]

houston conservative is my blog and Will Malven is Sudetenland.

[Old Sarge]

OH, why not, my tax dollars are subsidising everyone else, so why not the poor chattering class?

[Sudetenland]

Amen. I say, what? The more the merrier.

[Flycatcher]

So the Dems want to bail out their propaganda mouthpieces and have the masses pay for it?

It's actually brilliant in a horribly cynical sort of way.

And you're right -- I should have seen this coming but I didn't.

[seowulf]

I wonder if bailed out newspapers are going to be renamed Pravda or Isvestia.

[all the best]

And then the state will have a stake in the media. With that will come control. If you are not wearing a tin foil hat these days you a not paying attention.

[2harddrive]

I’ve heard the the New York Times and several of the other “dying dailies” newspapers are quietly lobbying for Federal bailout money, too! Let’em DIE. Technologically OBSOLETE....buggy-whips in a Space Shuttle era.