[Psalm 144]

“Bailout” prep work.

Look for this to morph into calls for government subsidies (extracted from our wallets) to NPRify the local TV news.

[abb]

Already underway.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101801461_pf.html

Finding a new model for news reporting

By Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson
Monday, October 19, 2009

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— A national Fund for Local News should be created with fees the Federal Communications Commission collects from or could impose on telecom users, broadcast licensees or Internet service providers. Grants should be made competitively by independent state Local News Fund Councils to local news organizations for innovations in local news reporting and ways to support it.

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[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Here, in Canada, networks are furiously lobbying for a cut of the revenues from cable and satellite companies — to pay for local programming.

[haroldeveryman]

Look for this to morph into calls for government subsidies

Morph in progress.

Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367962/posts

Subsidies For News? ( “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”)