Posted on 01/01/2009 7:49:40 AM PST by moneyrunner
mere month ago this idea was a joke. The joke could be on us.
Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press.
Nicastro represents Connecticut's 79th assembly district, which includes Bristol, a city of about 61,000 people outside Hartford, the state capital. Its paper, The Bristol Press, may fold within days, along with The Herald in nearby New Britain.
That is because publisher Journal Register, in danger of being crushed under hundreds of millions of dollars of debt, says it cannot afford to keep them open anymore.
Nicastro and fellow legislators want the papers to survive, and petitioned the state government to do something about it. "The media is a vitally important part of America," he said, particularly local papers that cover news ignored by big papers and television and radio stations.
... Relying on government help raises ethical questions for the press ...
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
Of course the libs need newspapers to survive. How else would they get their talking points and other drivel published?
Why shouldn’t government be involved in the press? It’s involved in everything else. Chickens coming home to roost.
I think that the best way to sneer at this idea is to point out the obvious.
Newspapers bitterly advocate “the separation of church and state.”
So now they are being utterly hypocritical in not demanding “the separation of media and state.”
“Government media complex”, term coined by M. Savage, is a reality. Gov propaganda units also fits.
With an honest, non-biased MSM, democrats would have 25 senate seats and 150 or so in the house. Of course the party will bail out its co-conspirators.
They would still be able to use networks, college professors, and entertainers.
Whatever happened to separation of press and state?!
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