Posted on 05/10/2009 5:43:13 AM PDT by wrrock
President Barack Obama ended on a serious note, pledging his undying support for journalists and specifically newspapers.
President Obama spoke about media job losses and changes in the industry, then quoted Jefferson, “if he had the choice between Government with newspapers or newspapers without Government, he’d choose the latter.” The gushing was perhaps understandable at a press function, but it’s what he said next that foretold of a newspaper bailout.
Obama told the crowd “Your ultimate success is essential to success of our democracy” before shortly saying “Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.”
The notable thing in context is that Obama primarily in the speech talks about newspapers, with other media outlets being mentioned second (collectively), or when making a joke (for example, noting that Jefferson hadn’t seen Cable News.) It would appear from the speech clearly that Obama holds the mainstream media, and particularly newspapers above online media. It is clear that when he talked about “tough and vibrant media” that he is referring to mainstream media, and newspapers in particular.
He concludes with the line that the problems in the media industry are “problems worth solving,” which sounds an awful lot like the final word that there’s going to be a newspaper bailout.
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Here comes the pay off for msm’s critical help in getting zero elected.
This is very bad. Obama knows that he needs his Pravda to stay in power. Public television and public radio are bad enough. You cannot have a free press that is govenment funded.
The Fourth Estate pines to be controlled by the Second.
Help out the liberal biased newspapers and shut up conservative talk radio.
You're exactly right - although would it be any worse than it already is?
This is something we have got to fight as hard as anything we've ever fought - because it IS a critical part of his platform, to have a lot of friendly press to cover up and obfuscate his actions.
GOEBBELS’ PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
Based upon Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob, published in Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences
3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
4. Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign
6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.
Exactly. We are morphing into the Soviet Union. The damage Odumbo is doing to the republic is incalculable.
After all, what would Roosevelt do without his Duranty.
Sounds good. Pack your bags and haul azz back to Chicago, ZerØ.
Rhetorical question, of course.
Leni
The American media is generally more likemindedly Fascist than lock-stepped Marxist. Thus the Nazi newspaper (the Baobachter Zeitung [sp.?] springs to mind.
They need to get the same line with the UAW.
The lap dog media is about to get a well earned treat from their master.
Too bad it will not stop the bleeding of dollars and readers. It will just delay the inevitable.
He could just put all the media types on the payroll. Minimum wage and a Chris Matthews up the leg. Or is it down the leg?
There was no doubt that O plans a newspaper bailout.
Not a word about the sacrifice of our military heroes, not a word about their families, just a pity party for the journalists.
PUKE
Yes it would.
Institutionalizing corruption.
Letting them know the ONE will provide for all (just like Daddy Stalin did) but you have to do precisely as HE wants you to do or else.
Obfuscating truth, making real facts irrelevant, all that really matters is that everything written MUST endow the greatness of the ONE and his minions.
Anything else will not be tolerated AND you will be out of business looking fro that burger flipping job of choice.
PATRONAGE before Patriotism!!!
This is a memo from me to the Obama Administration who I know has staffers monitoring this very thread. Funding the media has no positive impact whatsoever to the economy, in fact the media has created an atmosphere of bad news, negativity and has been a detriment to the economy and emotional mindsets. The media should not benefit from taxpayer dollars when I hear it all the time that schools are not getting enough funding with disgruntled teachers protesting their pay. Focus. You’re losing it.
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