Posted on 03/17/2009 1:10:34 PM PDT by slomark
There goes Nancy Pelosi again. First she wanted bail-out money to save some mice in the San Francisco wetlands. Now she wants bail-out money to save some rats in the San Francisco media.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Duh) asked Attorney General Eric Holder “to weigh the public benefit of saving The Chronicle and other papers from closure against the agency’s anti-trust mission to guard against anti-competitive behavior.”
She neglected to mention anti-competitive behavior by the government. .......
(Excerpt) Read more at ihatethemedia.com ...
OH NO WAYYYY
Don’t bailout SF Chroncile Queen Nancy
Great. This would make the communist takeover. The Democrats would be literally using tax dollars to buy favorable press.
Hell no.
Do news organizations deserve bailouts? (Pelosi wants to bailout leftist SF Chronicle)
ABSOLUTELY NOT..
There is absoultely no lack of sources for news for people these days. If the paper can not stay afloat on its merits then goodbye.........
“Do news organizations deserve bailouts? (Pelosi wants to bailout leftist SF Chronicle)”
Time to break out the tar and feathers for Pelosi and the rest of the rats in power, if they even consider this insult to America and waste of our tax $’s.
Why take the chance of private ownership of the media? I mean, some rogue political reporter may one day consider it his responsibility to actually supply the public with the truth.
This has to be fought tooth and nail.
The alternative is a Soviet state media.
wonder what percentages of news organization who endorsed Obama versus one’s who didn’t will be eligible for free money?
The Science Fiction Chronicle is left-wing?
Who knew?
;^)
If most people can’t trust newspapers today, how much less we’ll trust them when the Obama Regime dictates to them ... and the wicked witch in Seattle is dead ... RIP PostIntelligencer ....
Bail them out with California money. The SF Chronicle provides me with exactly JACK, not even something for my cat to crap on.
Not my California money! San Frnacisco money.
The newspaper industry is dying, and it has nothing to do with the bad economy. A bailout for papers only delays the inevitable. It makes no sense whatsoever to bail out an industry that people don’t want any more.
While I’m not a fan of all the bailouts, at least people still have a use for banks.
Did anyone look at what Pelosi is asking from Holder, the Atty General? She does not want the DoJ to block any newspaper mergers on anti-competive grounds, and she is right. When newspapers are going bankupt, it’s not time to worry about newspaper monopolies.
I would extend Pelosi’s request to other troubled industries, such as automakers and airlines.
Of course, I oppose government “loans” to newspapers, but that does not appear to be what she has requested, at least not yet.
Second that thought.
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
What’s next, government owned media?
...Too late.
There was a time when the press/media was suppose to be the people’s government watchdog. They were suppose to get the scoop on bad government behavior.
Now there are politicians that would like the government to own more and more media outlets.
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