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Obama Appointee Suggests Radical Plan for Newspaper Bailout
FoxNews ^ | Thursday, April 16, 2009

Posted on 04/16/2009 1:16:34 PM PDT by Joiseydude

Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry.

But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.

"The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process, because an independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy," said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; bailouts; bho44; democratlapdogs; democrats; dncmediamachine; enemedia; liberalmedia; mediaelite; msm; obama; obamedia; pravdamedia; rosabrooks
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To: Kansas58

“Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and

Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and”

Dont forget newspapers cause global warming, acid rain and are highly flammable. Give me a week and I will make up data showing that more children are killed by newspapers than by second hand smoke.


21 posted on 04/16/2009 1:32:31 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Correct, we had newspapers before the massive advertisement industry they became.


22 posted on 04/16/2009 1:34:33 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: Hacklehead

Deal!

I think this would be great, but most politicians are a bit worried about bringing this up.

Maybe, as more and more of these dinosaurs go broke, the politicians will turn on the print media.

That day can not come soon enough!

It is absurd that conservatives who NEVER get endorsed by their local papers are so worried about offending their local papers.


23 posted on 04/16/2009 1:40:07 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Joiseydude

journalists ARE reliant lapdogs.
If you do not believe this then just check out how they ignored the tea tax protest, or whored themselves to get this magic negro elected.


24 posted on 04/16/2009 1:43:39 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl

“...reliant lapdogs.” The MSM are already “reliable” lapdogs. And the notion that our media is independent is ludicrous. Unless, of course, it is independence from honesty, truth, objectivity and basic fairness. The MSM is certainly independent from those little items.


25 posted on 04/16/2009 1:51:46 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Hacklehead
Give me a week and I will make up data showing that more children are killed by newspapers than by second hand smoke.

What do you mean second hand smoke, just think of all those years news papers and that toxic ink was used to start fires in the old warm morning cook stove, not to mention the little house out back. LOL

26 posted on 04/16/2009 1:56:28 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: Joiseydude
One could argue that the First Amendment prohibits the government from doing any kind of bailout of newspapers.

"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."

Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to choose whose speech to not partake in. If the NYT is failing, it is because the People are choosing to not partake in their message.

The government should not be in the business of choosing whose speech to financially support (and abridging the speech of those the government chooses to not financially support). As we saw with the banking and automotive bailouts, the government will feel an ownership right to affect the management of those enterprises. The First Amendment forbids the government from forcing a particular press to engage in certain actions by law (i.e. strings attached to bailouts).

I suppose there is no law in the government publishing their own newspaper, as long as the People still have the freedom to provide their own press.

-PJ

27 posted on 04/16/2009 1:57:30 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: Hacklehead
People were probably dying from ink lung for years and we thought it was coal. What a cover up!!!
28 posted on 04/16/2009 1:57:42 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: Joiseydude

“But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.”

And the difference would be. Actually, it might make the already obvious a little more obvious to sheeple.


29 posted on 04/16/2009 2:11:24 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Joiseydude

Form a commission and call it INGSOC. Orwell was 25 years early.


30 posted on 04/16/2009 2:26:29 PM PDT by festusbanjo (they'll smile now, but in 4 years they'll still be stupid, broke and looking for a handout.)
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To: Joiseydude
But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.

These critics are a bit late!!!!!

31 posted on 04/16/2009 2:34:39 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Vaquero

Olive Stone will do just fine.


32 posted on 04/16/2009 2:41:09 PM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: HonestConservative
Olive Stone will do just fine.

really?? I though perhaps Michael Moore.

33 posted on 04/16/2009 2:49:29 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Joiseydude
I don't think Brooks quite gets the whole "freedom of the press" idea.

Rosa Brooks is a red diaper baby, the daughter of left-wing journalist Barbara Ehrenreich.

The magazines her mother writes for make sweeping claims about their own independence from outside influence.

But seeing how quick Rosa is to reach for the government dollar when things get tough makes you wonder how sincere all that talk of independence really is.

34 posted on 04/16/2009 3:09:43 PM PDT by x
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To: Joiseydude

This nitwit is now a Pentagon adviser?!?!?

Time to start learning Mandarin...


35 posted on 04/16/2009 3:11:34 PM PDT by frossca
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To: Joiseydude
We've had NPR for over 30 years. It is but a small step for the feds to subsidize all media.

If challenged, our black-robed minor gods on the Scotus will find it constitutional.

36 posted on 04/16/2009 3:25:28 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Islam is a barbaric political and social system in religious drag.)
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To: Joiseydude
The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process

Actually, the day the government bails out liberal rags with our tax money is the day I don't ever want to see...

37 posted on 04/16/2009 3:42:49 PM PDT by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: Joiseydude

These left wing spawn of Goebbels have done more to destroy a good and noble profession than an invading army. My God, writers were given special protection under the Constitution. I hate these people. They destroyed a special trust granted by God and reaffirmed by the founders.

When it comes time to hang traitors, I want a separate line reserved for so-called journalists.


38 posted on 04/16/2009 4:17:49 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: Tarpon

I read somewhere that NPR has a bigger audience than Rush.


39 posted on 04/16/2009 4:25:56 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: razorback-bert

The elevator music crowd ...


40 posted on 04/16/2009 4:32:05 PM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, your surrender your rights.)
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