[Red Steel]

Hey why not since the New York Slimes et al perform beneficial propaganda for us Dems in Gooberment. Time to bailout and payoff.

[Albion Wilde]

Cardin is a total a******.

[GOPJ]

"We are losing our newspaper industry," Cardin said in a statement. "

Ummmm, we "lost" the buggy whip industry too.

The Conestoga wagon industry...

And the whaling industry.

And the typewriter industry. Life moves on...

Cardin's an idiot.

[GOPJ]

"We are losing our newspaper industry," Cardin said in a statement. "

Ummmm, we "lost" the buggy whip industry too.

The Conestoga wagon industry...

And the whaling industry.

And the typewriter industry. Life moves on...

Cardin's an idiot. PEOPLE VOTE WITH THEIR DOLLARS IN A FREE COUNTRY. AND IN THIS DEMOCRACY THEY'RE VOTING "NO" TO NEWSPAPERS.

[ScottinVA]

Newspapers, but not news magazines? How about talk radio? How about network news? How about cable news? On and on and on we could go...

Could never have made this sh*t up.

[CitizenM]

This means there will probably be a clause that says they will be tax-exempt as long as they print what is approved by the Govt.

Who's next? TV? Radio? (except of course stations that carry conservative talk shows).

[Uncle Miltie]

The Rush Tribune, with a Radio adjunct.

[Uncle Miltie]

The tax code is becoming a patronage system.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Lord! So the worst Bolsheviks become the tax shelter for the chattering classes!

"..and contributions to papers would be tax deductible..."

[Chode]

[mainestategop]

All this is doing is subsidizing failure.

[NonValueAdded]

Newspapers that accept non-profit status would not be allowed to endorse candidates, but they could cover political news just as they do now, Cardin said.

Now there's a contradiction if I ever saw one. Current coverage equates to an endorsement in most circumstances.

I'll bet similar legislation was filed to save the buggy whip industry too. Print on paper presentation of stale news is the problem as well as a complete contempt for half their potential customer base. This is another case of propping up failure to delay the advent of better solutions.

[RichardAubrey]

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”

Benjamin Franklin
1722

[RichardAubrey]

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

Thomas Jefferson
1799

[RichardAubrey]

“The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it
is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.”

John Peter Zenger
Colonial printer
1735

[RichardAubrey]

And finally,

“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man
be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinion calculated to embarrass the government?”

Nikolai Lenin (Obama I)
1920

[April Lexington]

The ban on political endorsements is a joke. Newspapers editorialize in the stench of each article they write. The bias in reporting and headlines is so obvious and it is trickling into the local community papers they are gobbling up across the country.

Big happy front page stories about Obama and the good he is doing, trash pieces on anything that even whiffs of GOP. Its all propaganda and giving them tax exempt status is just another ploy to prop up communist propaganda media.

[RWB Patriot]

“Newspapers perform a public service for democracy”

Newspapers perform a propaganda service for democrats.

There, fixed it.

[GOPJ]

Why doesn’t the government just print their own press releases. Why do we have to pretend it would still be a free press?

[elkfersupper]

Every citizen and corporation provides an essential public service and should be able to operate tax-free.

Starve the beast.

[Cheerio]

I was wondering when the Congresscritters were going to get around to helping their propaganda arm, in this time of economic distress what with newsprint companies closing right and left. Our local errhead amerika (nova M) closed up a couple of weeks ago leaving the libtards without any Rhodes or Malloy - screaming on the Internet boards about how they should force NPR or some network to “GIVE” them air time. Next stop = Congress. It just isn’t fair being a libtard in a land of conservative talk radio - all the while they ignore their DNC TV outlets and NPR.