“The end of the article has it correct. The market will determine.”
I agree. But, what if there exists (including this article) a game plan for the govt. to control the media, regardless of the market?
They're already doing it to a certain extent.... MSNBC and CNN come to mind.
The can’t force their views via the “Fairness Doctrine” as it’s too blatant, but if they convince the public that this “bailout” is needed they can achieve the control they wish without any laws being passed, or ANY WAY for the PEOPLE to even OBJECT (as if our Reps listen, now???).
It’s not a matter of “what if”, honestly. Obama is a SELF-DESCRIBED collectivist/Marxist/Communist/Fascist with his own personal messiah-complex twist. What is one of the FIRST things ANY dictator does to cement power??? SILENCE THE OPPOSITION.
These Communists within our government aren’t stupid enough to physically take over these media outlets ala Chavez, that would be too obvious (and even then there were Democrats on DU that praised him for doing it...). Hidden in other bills they have already sought to give the President Executive Privilege to SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE INTERNET at will without oversight (I apologize that I don’t know the exact status of THAT bill, but they stopped talking about the Internet part, and are concentrating on the “electrical grid” “terrorist” threat portion as the Internet portion made us howl immediately. BTW: Conveniently there was an article citing Russia and China for hacking into our power grid RIGHT BEFORE the political tactic switch on that specific bill... TOO COINCIDENTAL!)
The leaders in Washington have already seen what the people will accept — the LIE that these businesses need to be “saved” by placing the government in control. They have now PROVEN that economic terrorism WORKS on the American people... And they will use this until it no longer works. How much they will achieve remains to be seen, and can only be stopped if people realize that these bailouts are a fancy way to hide “Nationalization” of private industry, and businesses.
First they came for the Banks...
Then they came for the Auto-makers...
Now they come for the Press...
And once they have the press there will be NO-ONE to speak for the REST of the ‘groups’ they plan to seize...
A FREE, and INDEPENDENT press is VITALLY important to the health of our Republic, and for the prevention of tyranny. It’s already to the point that the bias in our press has lead to the ability of these fascist/communists to brainwash the public... How many Americans will bother to check whether the station they turn on for their evening news is owned by Washington, first? How many Americans will honestly even KNOW this has happened... Like the press is going to report on ANYTHING related to THEIR OWN BAILOUT honestly?
Are these papers going to place a notice on every page stating that they are partially owned by the Federal Government? (Yeah, right...). Do people even realize how many of these HUGE media companies own their LOCAL DAILY papers? If someone said (for instance) McClatchy received bailout funds would people realize that there are NUMEROUS papers that are owned by that company? It’s not like the individual papers would be listed in the bailout bill, either... (I think you get the point...).