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A Plan to Save Our Free Press (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
The Washington Post ^
| April 3, 2009
| Benjamin L. Cardin
Posted on 04/03/2009 7:13:03 AM PDT by abb
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
That’s certainly keeping an open mind.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:46:45 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: abb
General Motors is being faulted for having poor management, and for that management for making poor business decisions. Newspaper management gets a free ride, because, they write the stories.
Seems to me the news gap will be filled regardless of who provides it.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:50:29 AM PDT
by
FLCowboy,
(If the Iraq war was so wrong, why is the Afghanistan war so right??)
To: khenrich
Seems to me the news gap will be filled regardless of who provides it. You are correct. Newspapers always thought they provided a 'product' - namely 'news.' They were wrong. They were and are only a distribution system.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:53:00 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
Our country depends on an open and free press to monitor what happens in our communities so that Americans can make sound judgments about their lives and leaders.Indeed. The press in whatever form needs to be unbiased arbitors of the truth and pursue it regardless of political leanings. The editorial boards across America that endorsed Barack Obama and failed to investigate him with the same tenacity they did McCain and Palin aren't "open and free press" as Jefferson would have envisioned.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:03:37 AM PDT
by
Birch T. Barlow
(Go Mariners! Certain 2009 AL West champions!)
To: abb
Cetainly a more pleasant and flexible distribution system than one tethered to a power supply.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:14:57 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: stuartcr
Other than the fact that the only “news” distributed by a newspaper is what the publisher deems fit to print.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:19:13 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
Comment #27 Removed by Moderator
To: abb
News is not the only thing people enjoy about or read in, the paper.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:52:26 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: stuartcr
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:55:35 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
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posted on
04/03/2009 10:00:09 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: Grampa Dave
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posted on
04/03/2009 10:03:12 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
Keller’s response only enforces the reality of his elite fascist arrogance.
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posted on
04/03/2009 10:13:27 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
To: abb
Clown senator from Maryland. DITTO!
The Marxists will do anything to keep their Pravda Presses alive.
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posted on
04/03/2009 10:15:38 AM PDT
by
evad
(YES!! I WANT Obama's Agenda TO FAIL!!!)
To: BenLurkin
The Philadelphia Bulletin reports that the New York Times - “all the news that’s fit to print” - sat on an election-season about illegal ties between the Obama campaign and ACORN because it could have been a “game-changer.” Who wants to bet they would NEVER sit on a story about a Republican ... (well unless doing so would help a dem.)
Yeah, the New York Times is like Dufar - a few Unitarian liberal suck-up types will "drama queen it" - but in the long run - it's hopeless.
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posted on
04/03/2009 10:22:00 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(The Queen gave Obama a signed photograph. What did she give President Bush?)
To: Grampa Dave
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posted on
04/03/2009 10:45:25 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
Our country depends on an open and free press...Who said that press had to be printed and run by the DNC?
The key words here are open and free, neither of which suitably describe the present print media cabal.
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posted on
04/03/2009 11:30:38 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: nascarnation
“My fear is that the govt will bail them our and make the propaganda relationship official and permanent”
Spot on; bank on it.
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posted on
04/03/2009 11:40:25 AM PDT
by
henkster
(0bamanomics: "I'll loan you all the money you need to get out of debt.")
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Like Jefferson, I believe that a well-informed public is the core of our democracy.
"...and that's why it is necessary to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine..."
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:21:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: abb
I got question who want buy SF Chroncile
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:28:21 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: SevenofNine
I got question who want buy SF Chroncile That is a trick question, LOL! There is no answer except to say "no one."
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:32:46 PM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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