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Obama Appointee Suggests Radical Plan for Newspaper Bailout
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| 04/17/2009
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Posted on 04/17/2009 6:06:45 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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To: GlennBeck08
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posted on
04/17/2009 6:56:12 AM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
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To: jer33 3
“The Central Organ”
Communism is frought with peril.
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posted on
04/17/2009 6:59:28 AM PDT
by
ecomcon
To: Thank You Rush
I cant for the life of me, figure out WHY she would be named as an advisor in the Pentagon!! What does the Pentagon have to do with newspapers? 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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:00:54 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
To: RaceBannon
left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest.My God!!!
Can anything be further from the truth???
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:01:05 AM PDT
by
evad
(YES!! I WANT Fub0's Agenda TO FAIL!!!)
To: buggy02
What help would a bailout do anyway? If no one buys the paper, and then they would have to generate some advertizing revenue, but who would buy a spot in the paper if no one reads it. 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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:04:50 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
To: Don Corleone
Whose Constitution? Theirs (the living one) or ours(the real one)? Ours. Constitution: The Real.
(Good point, though...)
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:06:42 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
To: RaceBannon
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.
Yeah, I can't imagine anything that will further honest journalism and discussion of government more than having the government pay journalists. And I'm SURE that government would be just as willing to bail out a small conservative journal as a dying newspaper with liberal tendencies.
To: TaxRelief
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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:08:22 AM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
( BOOMER SOONER! Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010! Vote Gary for OK GOP Chair)
To: RaceBannon
or we can watch, wringing clapping our hands, as more and more top journalists commie propagandists are laid offHmmm... decisions, decisions...
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:13:09 AM PDT
by
roamer_1
(It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
To: RaceBannon
“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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:17:27 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Meanwhile, the sheeple graze mindlessly while awaiting slaughter at Hope and Change Ranch)
To: PapaBear3625
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.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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:32:37 AM PDT
by
erman
(Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
To: PapaBear3625
...the news industry has more or less collapsed...What makes here so certain it's "collapsed"? I think it's merely in a state of transition.
CA....
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:36:42 AM PDT
by
Chances Are
(Whew! It seems I've at last found that silly grin!)
To: jersey117
Especially for so-called journalists. 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.
To: RaceBannon
...
to the journalists who must keep it honest.ROFLMAO...rosa is just SO very funny!!!!!!
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:40:39 AM PDT
by
top 2 toe red
(O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
To: RaceBannon
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. 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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:43:44 AM PDT
by
Will88
To: RaceBannon
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.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:44:12 AM PDT
by
top 2 toe red
(O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
I'll bet my list of top journalists is a lot shorter than hers.I have enough fingers to count mine...with some left over.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:47:45 AM PDT
by
top 2 toe red
(O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
To: RaceBannon
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
Brooks ... advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern news operations.
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posted on
04/17/2009 7:58:47 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: RaceBannon
The uber secretary for agitprop.
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posted on
04/17/2009 8:01:37 AM PDT
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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