Posted on 04/17/2009 6:06:45 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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.
Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern news operations.
"Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off," she wrote in her parting column on April 9.
Brooks said this would help rescue the industry from a "death spiral" and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. "[I] can't imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed," she wrote.
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The MSM are Obambi's power base. No way he lets newspapers fail.
The MSM are Obambi's power base. No way he lets newspapers fail.
You are so correct. You were thinking far ahead on that one. Regards.
TOP Journalists like Dan Rather were FIRED because they committed wholesale acts of FRAUD to deliberately alter the course of a Presidential Election.
Buh bye, you useless sack of crap.
For The Love Of Big Brother. The propaganda wing.
Absolutely. The propaganda wing of a dictatorship is key to the whole thing. This is scary as all get out. Time to make that donation to Free Republic!
That's how they do it in Communist countries. State-run propaganda organs, with Government-written "editorials/talking points.
Yippee! Sounds like a "great" idea/sar
“It has been ‘progressively’ poisoned since the 1950’s”
It goes back further than that. Try Teddy R, Taft and Wilson...scary stuff
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Pravda.
Take the King's coin, you do the King's bidding.
Okay, if they can, they can't force us to read them, can they?
Okay, if they can, they can't force us to agree with them, can they?
WOW don’t even try to be subtle you red sob’s. Just come right out state your real intentions. It’s crystal clear anyway now. Most American’s will not accept your Marxism without a fight.
Government funded Newspapers will mean content is government approved only.
It’s that simple.
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Bingo!
As much as the left screams “Separation of Church and State,” we need to start screaming “Separation of Press and State!”
Government supported means government controlled! Ask the Cubans and the Iraqis and the Venezuelans and the...oh you get the idea!
Just wondering, is there a newspaper that IS doing well? Or least not on the brink of bankruptcy....
The MSM "misunderestimates" the damage bias does to their credibility. Dan Rather was the tip of the iceberg...
Touche
Here comes Pravda!
MONSTER - SUICIDE - AMERICA
From the 1970 release “Monster”
Words and music by Steppenwolf: John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Larry Byrom
(Monster)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And ‘til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog
And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey
(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
‘Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin’
Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin’ the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
‘Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
‘Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching
(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster
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