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How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,
Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any cap and trade or carbon tax proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like Cap and Trade and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really dont need any help!
This is like Hitler formally asking Hans Frank, the Governor of occupied Poland, whether it’s OK to start gassing Jews.
ComPooGate
This is hogwash.
Katharine Bouchage Weymouth is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School. As such, it is logical to assume she knew exactly what she was doing when she planned her money for access party.
Katharine is also Katharine Graham's granddaughter (and namesake). Her family owns the ComPost. As such, like Pinch Sultzberger at the NY Times, she will not face any disciplinary proceedings for her actions.
Finally, the term "compromise our journalism" is meaningless since it presumes there is something of value and some applicable standards of excellence which can, in fact, be compromised.
As a result, I read her whole statement as, "I'm sorry I got caught. Next time, I'll be more careful. But I will never, ever, relinquish the power of my news rag to influence government to adopt my liberal agenda."
I’m sure this “internal review” will return with findings that there was no wrong doing. Much like the Obama campaign reviewing it’s own fundraising activities ... “we did nothing wrong ... “.
Oh darn! I had so looked forward to buying access to the WaPo.
How that could be considered anything other than selling access to power absolutely baffles me. It is certainly a presence beyond the means of ordinary citizens. Weymouth's impassioned insistence that it isn't what it looks like is simply not the case - it is what it looks like.
What is most curious about the affair is her equally impassioned insistence that this, or something like it, is common practice in other organizations similar to hers. I'd love to know just how extensive that is. Perhaps an enterprising journalist might find that a proper subject for investigative journalism. It might be Pulitzer material, but he or she could count on never attending one of these affairs again themselves. That may be why no one has.
Pay for play is what your advertising dept. rate card is for Mrs. Weymouth. NOT your newsroom!
I'm sure that they are leaving no stone unturned in an effort to find and punish those who let out the truth about their little soirees for the hard lefties.
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth informed staff this afternoon, in a memo obtained by POLITICO, that general counsel Eric Lieberman will "review recent events to make sure that our business processes are consistent with, and will not in any way compromise, our journalism." Weymouth also said that executive editor Marcus Brauchli and senior editor Milton Coleman will "codify parameters for Post newsroom participation in live events.""Oops! What I meant to say was, 'make sure that our journalism processes are consistent with, and will not in any way compromise, our shilling for Obama, the Democratic Party, and more generally the left, particularly the foreign left.'"
“internal review”?
What a pathetic attempt at a joke....
I’m sure some Freepers would do the review at no cost to the compost and the report would be fair and square.
What compromises their journalism is blatant liberal bias. Business practices are merely ancillary to the cancer that infects their reportage.
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