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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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To: unkus

It was encoraging to see President 0bama say he’s going to change focus to include small businesses.

Not that I believe him or think there should be any bailout, but at least he’s moving from the Bush/Mussolini policies of bailing out just the biggies. And it give something else to figure out what he is REALLY going to do and what his REAL motivation is with that statement.


21 posted on 10/21/2009 5:32:48 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: prairiebreeze

bump for AM read


22 posted on 10/21/2009 5:35:50 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: Kaslin

Notice how leftist thought can’t survive without subsidies. Consider PBS, NPR, the various left-leaning artists. Now, why is that?


23 posted on 10/21/2009 5:37:14 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: jusduat

“They want the people to pay for the indoctrination.”

If the liberals love these papers so much, let them buy them. Let the liberals lose money. I refuse to pay for a newspaper I don’t like and won’t read.


24 posted on 10/21/2009 5:40:58 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: samsmom

Next step: Change the name to Pravda


25 posted on 10/21/2009 5:42:49 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Tyrant Obama declares war on more American freedoms every day.)
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To: popdonnelly

I don’t want to pay for abortions either, or for aid to
people who come here illegally or a dozen other causes.
I get to stop it when I don’t pay tax anymore.


26 posted on 10/21/2009 5:48:36 PM PDT by jusduat (probably lost)
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To: popdonnelly

I do recall what Robert Heinlein said about state-supported artists... “Incompetent wh*res.”

And he was being rather kind and decorous, I think.


27 posted on 10/21/2009 5:53:20 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: Kaslin

At one time, this would have been a hilarious Onion spoof.


28 posted on 10/21/2009 5:55:18 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Kaslin
Pernicious collectivism.

Patently unamerican.

29 posted on 10/21/2009 5:58:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: Kaslin

30 posted on 10/21/2009 5:59:59 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: Kaslin

Newspaper articles = The old boring liberal words that fill the white space between the used car and supermarket ads on newsprint.


31 posted on 10/21/2009 6:02:44 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick leftists when they're down. Wait till they're half way back up. You get better leverage!)
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To: coydog
"Support for the arts - merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetant whore!" --Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
32 posted on 10/21/2009 6:05:17 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Jim Robinson
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I wonder if the LAT has their application for free money filled out yet?

33 posted on 10/21/2009 6:08:19 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Kaslin

Wonder if this was a discussion topic @ the secret Madow/Olberman pow-wow.....


34 posted on 10/21/2009 6:17:56 PM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: Let's Roll
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan
35 posted on 10/21/2009 6:18:40 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have two choices and two choices only: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!)
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To: Kaslin

Journalists ask the taxpayers for a bail out.

Taxpayers say no.

You arrogant journalists have a nice day.


36 posted on 10/21/2009 6:21:59 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Kaslin

If it can’t stand on its own merits or strengths, then it is right for it to fail and leave it to those more tuned into delivering impartially constructed content, that readers can digest the contents on their own and make of it what they will and not just be pruveyors of propaganda that pushes a leftist agenda.


37 posted on 10/21/2009 6:30:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: Let's Roll

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

Bunch of little whores they be.


38 posted on 10/21/2009 6:38:14 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Kaslin

Pravda


39 posted on 10/21/2009 7:04:34 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin's mob minion - Mob Name: Hatman the Hitman)
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To: Kaslin
As newspapers and TV networks struggle..

What networks are struggling? I don't hear of any networks going broke.

40 posted on 10/21/2009 7:23:26 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (FOX News declared Terrorist Organization)
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