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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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.
bump for AM read
Notice how leftist thought can’t survive without subsidies. Consider PBS, NPR, the various left-leaning artists. Now, why is that?
“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.
Next step: Change the name to Pravda
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.
I do recall what Robert Heinlein said about state-supported artists... “Incompetent wh*res.”
And he was being rather kind and decorous, I think.
At one time, this would have been a hilarious Onion spoof.
Patently unamerican.
Newspaper articles = The old boring liberal words that fill the white space between the used car and supermarket ads on newsprint.
I wonder if the LAT has their application for free money filled out yet?
Wonder if this was a discussion topic @ the secret Madow/Olberman pow-wow.....
Journalists ask the taxpayers for a bail out.
Taxpayers say no.
You arrogant journalists have a nice day.
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.
“....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.
Pravda
What networks are struggling? I don't hear of any networks going broke.
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