[a fool in paradise]

How much does the MSM pay Media Matters and the DNC for running their missives without editing or rebuttal?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Here’s my prescription for newspapers: ESAD.

[Hacklehead]

How can an industry survive if it allows other companies, like Google News, to use its content without any compensation?

(NYTimes editor) Keller asked him (Google CEO), “When are you going to start paying for our content?” Schmidt stiffened a bit and declared: “We will pay when everyone pays” - everyone with an Internet site, that is. There’s an impossible standard...

Online sales now provide one-third of his (RIAA VP) industry’s income. At best, the music business would be a hollow shell of what it is today...

There’s another solution. The courthouse. The Associated Press announced last week that it would “seek legal and legislative remedies” to stop Web sites from pirating AP content. The nation’s newspapers own the AP. Shouldn’t newspapers stand up for themselves? (Google, by the way, does pay the AP for its stories.)

You might ask: Why does it matter? Several studies have shown that more than three-quarters of the news you see, hear or read anywhere is at least derivative of something that originally appeared in a newspaper. Television news has always been especially dependent on newspapers... The point is, without newspaper journalism, the nation would have little original journalism left... “I wince as they run long excerpts of our material,” he said. “I’ll leave it to the lawyers to decide if that is piracy. But it’s certainly freeloading.”

Chill out man, what are you some greedy capitalist? Dude, its just words, nobody own words. We should be like the indians and share everything. Live and let live Bro.

[Hacklehead]

Why buy a newspaper when you can get the exact same content in a fax from the DNC for nothing? Enjoy bankruptcy sucker.

[FormerACLUmember]

A laughable, pathetic prescription for a Dead Parrot industry.

The liberal newspapers destroyed most of their remnant credibility in the Great Obama Scam.

Yeah, AP and NY Times, make my day. See who will pay to see your democrat national committee press releases disguised as “reporting.”

[ken21]

why do they think that if we borrow their “news” to laugh at,

that we’d pay for it?

[dforest]

A mixture of cyanide and arsnic ought to cure what ails the MSM and liberal rags.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

My prescription for them would be administered with elderberry wine.

[Joan Kerrey]

They deserve to be paid for it...

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Not in my book they don’t. Why should we be expected to pay for biased reporting, fraudulent photoshopped photos, deliberate lies and propaganda? No thanks. Newspapers had their day and they blew it. Alternate sources have exposed the fraud and they no longer offer a product that can be trusted. The death of the big city newspapers can’t come soon enough for me.

[McGavin999]

Half of our time is spent laughing at what they produce. It would be better, and people would pay for it, if it were actually news instead of slanted propaganda.

But then again, if it was not slanted propaganda, the newspapers wouldn't be in trouble.