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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.

So she's thinking that "journalists" whose papers owe their existence to government funding are going to objectively report on government officials?

Put the bong down, Rosa.

53 posted on 04/17/2009 6:49:16 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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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....

72 posted on 04/17/2009 7:36:42 AM PDT by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've at last found that silly grin!)
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