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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
It is easy to think of Nazi Germany as "a long time ago" or a "different world from us", but it wasn't. It was a VERY modern society with professionals, doctors, lawyers, engineers and scientists. Plenty of private business owners, etc. A very modern society. A few crazies got hold of some power, demonized an out of favor group and rode that to dictatorial power. Not everyone supported the Nazis, but it became dangerous to oppose them. We are already being called "terrorists" and "despicable" by those in power for disagreeing with them. THOSE IN POWER, not left-wing crazies on the net...THOSE IN POWER!
“The Central Organ”
Communism is frought with peril.
It's the Soviet model. Military units were assigned "political officers" whose job was to ensure that the units stayed loyal to the regime. The political officers would maintain networks of informants. Any officer or soldier with the "wrong" opinions would be sent to the Gulag, like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was.
Given the number of Republicans in the military, ensuring the loyalty of military units, and purging them of "politically incorrect" elements will be a major objective of the Obama regime. Reporters are expert in getting information by making the gullible think that the reporter is his friend and can be talked to.
My God!!!
Can anything be further from the truth???
Everyone would pay for the paper through taxes. The Post Office would deliver it with the mail. And, just like the post office has a legally-enforced monopoly on first-class mail, the nationalized papers would have a legally-enforced monopoly on advertising.
Ours. Constitution: The Real.
(Good point, though...)
Freedom of the Press is just that and any tampering with that by ZERO and his “numbskulls” needs to be taken seriously. Conservatives better be getting some deep pockets to start taking things like this to Court. I don’t normally advocate going the Court route but when you mess with the Constitution, then it is time to take action.
Even the thought of a Government bailout for the MSM sends chills up my spine. The newspapers are failing because of their bias including lying. Goes to show that the majority of people who read the papers are conservative or their readership would be up not down.
An award winning, honest, ethical journlist will always have a job. Biased reporters need to be shown the door.
Hmmm... decisions, decisions...
“can’t imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed”
Rosa, it already collapsed a long time ago, when you all stopped reported and started advocating. You’re not “news”papers; you’re simply propaganda talking points.
It's already happened. Look at the prosecutions of combat soldiers and their officers. Look closely at the pictures and tell me what you see.
What makes here so certain it's "collapsed"? I think it's merely in a state of transition.
CA....
I heard yesterday that there are more students in journalism schools then there are working journalists in the entire country. I lot of people are going to wind up with J-school degrees they can't use and loans they have to pay back.
ROFLMAO...rosa is just SO very funny!!!!!!
That's a major part of your problem, lady. Few of these people you refer to as "top journalists" are journalists at all, let alone top journalists. All too many of them are political hacks posing as journalists, using their positions to push personal and political agendas rather than to report facts to the readers.
Good riddance, and none should be bailed out. These problems have been long in the making, and the current recession is a minor part of it.
O’Reilly has been talking about this woman’s appointee all week...he is absolutely terrified that she will now have access to top Pentagon secrets.
I have enough fingers to count mine...with some left over.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229492/posts?page=48#48
...and I thought I was being sarcastic
The uber secretary for agitprop.
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