“So here it is: there is no Galt’s Gulch, and if you shut off your part of the economy then it will go to China or India. Starve the beast? The beast will borrow against your grand children while they nationalize your 401K. Infiltrate the media and start reporting who, what, when, where, and how. Ten serious journalists could have stopped Obama’s campagin dead. Stop the post-modern, relativistic prattle and the he-said she-said style of reporting. A sort of, kind of conservative news channel and talk radio is not enough. We need to infiltrate the AP and be the one to file the stories to begin with. We need to buy up local papers and pour a big can of America into them. If you think about it, wasn’t that what Mrs. Rand was really doing when she wrote her book—she was informing and influencing people and what, fifty years later, we’re here quoting her even though not 1 in 10 here are objectivists or whatever”
A very good post to chew on.
So the next question is the means - are you suggesting we pool our resources to buy these media outlets?
If you can go in with some like minded people and buy a local daily (or weekly) then go for it. If you don't insult the values and the intelligence of the demographic it might actually make money! If not, or if it breaks even, then at least the damage being done by the rest of the media can start to be undone.
Other alternative is to become (gasp) a journalist and infiltrate the whole works from reporter to editor to college professor. Think of it as being a G-Man infiltrating the CPUSA fifty years ago. Pay is low, but in this thread people are saying that they don't want to feed the beast.
The reason that there are too many democrats in the media is simple: there are not enough republicans. It just isn't our thing. Used to journalists didn't go to journalism school, they were cops, firemen, businessmen, whatever and whoever from ordinary walks of life that took up a pen somewhere along the way. They had a different perspective, what-with actually having had real jobs at some point. Now people go to journalism to become shameless left wing propagandists.
If the old media is dying, then while it deserves to die what will take the place of what it should have been doing? It ought to be possible to open a paper and just read the simple facts. Without a trustworthy media we are what, left with the postmodern proposition that there is no objective truth? It becomes a contest of demagogues and who can put on the most TV ads (and by the way, that ain't us anymore).
Back when I was in school the engineering college would not accept credit hours (for the total credit hours requirement) for journalism classes. It would accept them from literature, history, home economics, animal husbandry, weight lifting, whatever. But it specifically singled out (in the catalog) the journalism college to say that their credits were simply meaningless towards a real degree. Point being, how hard can it be? I've got the feeling that it is closer to the bottom 10% than the top 10% that go to journalism school. And these C- slackers are doing more harm to this country than Al Qaeda. They are doing more damage than Osama bin Laden. They pose as big a threat as the USSR at its strongest. They are corroding this country from within. Does anyone doubt that this republic, if it falls, will fail from within? Guess who is doing it—well, we are in a way because we just wring our hands and wag our fingers as though that will fix it somehow. If you're mad as Hell then do something about it: do the job that these jerks aren't.