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:
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Get in Step!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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.
How about “no”
It’s already been done. GE -> NBC/MSNBC
To borrow from another FReeper - isn’t it interesting how everything the left is for has to be protected or subsidized or both.
Just like GM and Chrysler, which got the government to give them our money even when we refused to buy their cars.
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.
One who lays down with dogs gets fleas.
....and not surprising
Screw them
Oh people, Please, get with the program! Get in line for the microchip.
BTW thanks for putting it in Breaking News
What do you expect from the left?
Maybe Fox News should be given EXTRA subsidies, since according to Dear Leader, they’re in bad need of improvement
I hope they’re also ready for those 90% pay cuts
Absolutely noooooooooooooooooooooo. They scream about separation of church and state, there should be separation of state and media!
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