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Subsidies For News? ( "The Reconstruction of American Journalism")
IBD Editorials ^ | October 21, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY staff

Posted on 10/21/2009 5:05:37 PM PDT by Kaslin

Media: As newspapers and TV networks struggle and the administration presumes to define a proper news organization, what does the journalism establishment demand? No fair if you guessed a government bailout.

The dead giveaway answer came this week as Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor and current vice president at large of the Washington Post, along with Michael Schudson, a professor at the mission-fatigued Columbia Journalism School, debuted their role-playing as cash-strapped bankers and auto execs.

The news business' tenuous hold on profitability, they lamented, has threatened its sustainability. They demanded massive government involvement.

The duo released their full report, "The Reconstruction of American Journalism," under the J school's auspices. Their executive summary appeared Monday as a Post op-ed, confirming that some ideas are so monstrous that some credulous people, often in the supposedly critical media, will take them seriously.

"American society," the two Church of Journalism priests intone, "must now take some collective responsibility for supporting news reporting — as society has, at much greater expense, for public education, health care, scientific advancement and cultural preservation, through varying combinations of philanthropy, subsidy and government policy."

Among their alarmingly anti-competitive recommendations:

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: leonarddownie; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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1 posted on 10/21/2009 5:05:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 10/21/2009 5:06:38 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
They want the people to pay for the indoctrination.

Get in Step!

3 posted on 10/21/2009 5:09:39 PM PDT by jusduat (probably lost)
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To: Kaslin

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!


4 posted on 10/21/2009 5:09:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
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To: Kaslin

This is outrageous to be even considered, and outright dangerous and slippery slopish. It basically gives license to progaganda outlets to continue to spew forth while ignoring anything their readership is telling them when canceling their subscriptions.


5 posted on 10/21/2009 5:11:28 PM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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To: Kaslin

How about “no”


6 posted on 10/21/2009 5:16:13 PM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s already been done. GE -> NBC/MSNBC


7 posted on 10/21/2009 5:17:15 PM PDT by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: Kaslin

To borrow from another FReeper - isn’t it interesting how everything the left is for has to be protected or subsidized or both.


8 posted on 10/21/2009 5:17:42 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: C210N
This is outrageous to be even considered, and outright dangerous and slippery slopish. It basically gives license to progaganda outlets to continue to spew forth while ignoring anything their readership is telling them when canceling their subscriptions.

Just like GM and Chrysler, which got the government to give them our money even when we refused to buy their cars.

9 posted on 10/21/2009 5:17:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: C210N
This is outrageous to be even considered

Heck, half of what was proposed and enacted in the past century and this one were outrageous.

When Mussolini, Bush, Roosevelt, 0bama, and other liberals enacted bailouts, they have all had the same effect.

10 posted on 10/21/2009 5:18:08 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

One who lays down with dogs gets fleas.


11 posted on 10/21/2009 5:20:09 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Let's Roll

....and not surprising


12 posted on 10/21/2009 5:20:12 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: jusduat

Screw them


13 posted on 10/21/2009 5:20:51 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Oh people, Please, get with the program! Get in line for the microchip.


14 posted on 10/21/2009 5:21:45 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Live Free Or Die)
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To: Jim Robinson
Absolutely not
15 posted on 10/21/2009 5:22:18 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Jim Robinson

BTW thanks for putting it in Breaking News


16 posted on 10/21/2009 5:23:07 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: C210N

What do you expect from the left?


17 posted on 10/21/2009 5:24:12 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Fox News should be given EXTRA subsidies, since according to Dear Leader, they’re in bad need of improvement


18 posted on 10/21/2009 5:25:52 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Kaslin

I hope they’re also ready for those 90% pay cuts


19 posted on 10/21/2009 5:29:42 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Jim Robinson

Absolutely noooooooooooooooooooooo. They scream about separation of church and state, there should be separation of state and media!


20 posted on 10/21/2009 5:29:42 PM PDT by samsmom
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