A Plan to Save Our Free Press (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The Washington Post ^ | April 3, 2009 | Benjamin L. Cardin

[JLS]

I have a plan. How about the SCOTUS extending freedom of the press to media no matter how it is produces and disseminated. The origninal intent of the US Constitution was to protect media from the government. SCOTUS should have done this when radio was invented.

[SevenofNine]

I think I hear David Geffen might be interested buy LA Times he waiting for the market go rock bottom buy it cheap LOL!

[abb]

The LA Times is “worth” zip, zilch, nada. The only value it has is the buildings, land, furniture and fixtures.

That’s it.

[Ouderkirk]

Imagine if they were objective and stopped being an extension of the democRAT party they might gain some of their readers back. As it stands now, most of us here won’t even use the major US daily’s to wrap fish.

[SevenofNine]

Yeah I been to LA Times building as a kid long long time ago on field trip it is niceee that only thing valuable about it

[Ouderkirk]

Converting to nonprofit status may not be the optimal only choice for some newspapers -- particularly those that rely on a significant revenue stream blindly support democRATS -- but this legislation would provide an alternative the only business model that could help many liberal newspapers keep operating. I am confident that citizens or foundations in communities across the nation would be willing to step in and preserve their local liberal papers. Newspapers provide a vital service. It is in the interest of our nation and good governance liberals, communists, and democRATS that we ensure their survival.

There...fixed it.

[caddie]

I am loving the daily or weekly news of another paper going West.

It is just what you guys deserve, you lying bastards in the Press.

You lied so much and so consistently that you undermined your own credibility.

It's like crapping yourself and looking around for someone to blame.

Adios, lying, condescending, smug, prissy journalism major maggots.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Coming soon: A Federal Media Tax.

[Radix]

"American print media is dying because it deserves to."

D'accord.

The new Media. however, is scarcely a superior alternative in that every thing that we read, post, foreword, and share, is completely available to the scoundrels who dwell in and control this new media without soul.

Privacy was forever gone even before this old media self induced abomination that shall also result in its very destruction. I will enjoy the demise of the Boston Globe and others of its sort even as my own freedoms are recklessly traversed by my ignorant neighbors, and the local Cable Company.

I simply want to swear out loud, but instead, I can revel in the the fact, the notion, that I will not be compelled to indulge this atrocity forever.

We do not live forever, but we can make a difference to those who follow.

Our so called Representatives are fueling a fire that will inevitably burn Posterity to a degree that will be unmatched by failure of progeny that has before been known.

At the least, my children will not be able to legitimately blame me for the sheitestorm that is coming.

[Radix]

Failure to progeny ......