Posted on 12/09/2008 2:48:34 AM PST by abb
If I get to see Ted Turner living in a box under a bridge, I will be content.
And that's something even Obama wouldn't dare touch because the First Amendment guarantees no interference with the media from the government. A bailout of the Tribune and McClatchy companies would constitute a direct interference in a form of favoritism, and that's grounds for a major lawsuit.
“US media in deep financial crisis (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch)”
Great Noose!
Favoritism...precisely!
I won’t put it past them to try, though. The cry will be “think of the workers, jobs lost, unemployment, etc.”
I think this phrase has jumped the shark. (then again, "Jump the Shark" as a phrase has retrograded and has now jumped the shark.
Anyone taking bets on when some big city Democrat congressman tells us that we have a First Amendment obligation to bail out Big News...
On the up side - Eveything. On the down side - Nothing.
...but in order to protect the taxpayers’ interests, the government should appoint a “news czar” to oversee operations mand make sure future reporting meets appropriate social standards.
Bull! The factors weren't beyond their control.
They could have been blowing the whistle years ago about the mortgage mess being caused by members of Congress, the Senate, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the greedy connivers on Wall Street who were packaging crap mortgages disguised as gold. But instead of telling the truth, they chose to look the other way and support their good friends who were scamming the country into bankruptcy.
Now they are complaining because their readership and viewing audiences have smelled a rat and have decided they aren't worth paying attention to and have abandoned them.
They deserve to die. It serves them right. They left honest journalism and reporting behind years ago. They propped up these thieves for years. They are accessories to these crimes - before, during, and after the fact!
Unfortunately, they'll probably get a huge taxpayer bailout as their friends will soon rule the country and themselves can't survive without the help from these same propaganda organs.
Its the consequences of trying to manipulate and censor the news, most pointedly the thereof lack of coverage of the ineligibility of Barack Hussein Obama.
If they want to get revenue back in a hurry especially now all they need to do is drop the Obama lock on news.
Maybe nobody has put two and two together and thought that maybe several million advertisers are upset at the media and MSM and are boycotting them.
You were not omnipotent MSM, America owns you.
Maybe nobody has put two and two together and thought that maybe several million advertisers are upset at the media and MSM and are boycotting them.Dinomedia boilerplate answers accusations of bias by claiming that they receive complaints from both sides of the aisle. Allow me to clue in dinomedia.
“an internal memo indicates that those ex-employees still receiving buyout payments are now creditors of the company and will have to wait to get paidif they get paid at all.”
Sweet!
Is it wrong to be happy about this?
Thanks for posting this.....
The sooner, the better.
I think that needs it’s own thread.....be back ....later;
Forget that idea/.....GD see link at post #22.
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