Posted on 05/31/2010 9:49:34 AM PDT by Nachum
Release of the Federal Trade Commission's working paper on "reinventing journalism" makes it clear that there is no more time for diplomacy about this issue: President Obama is determined to federalize the news industry just as he has banking, autos, and health care.
Everybody who wants independent journalism had better wake up to these three facts about what is going:
* Journalists must understand that there is no way the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press will survive if the federal government regulates the news industry as envisioned by the FTC. Those who accept at face value protests to the contrary or the professions of pure intentions by advocates of government takeover of the news business are, at best, incredibly naive.
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what makes you think the journos actually care?
Obama needs to be impeached and tried for treason.
Imagine if “journalists” were forced to tell the truth. No RAT would ever get elected again. The left wants 100% control of the MSM instead of the 98% they have now.
Journalists wake up?
Hell-to-the-NO. They prefer their drug-induced fantasyland.
“Imagine if “journalists” were forced to tell the truth.”
We can pray that HYPORCIRSY causes pain - a pain greater than childbirth. Imagine that one!
The MSM “People’s Media” has nothing to worry about.
It’s those folks who actually obtained their university degrees in a challenging subject (e.g, NOT journalism, education, political “science”, sociology, any “studies”) that should worry.
How dare actual intelligent people deign to write about the obvious?
Obvious - libtards are below slime mold on the achievement scale.
Most “journalists” would prefer to have us become a socialist/communist/marxist state where they have guaranteed jobs sitting on their butts writing flowery pieces based on whatever they’re told to write.
Journlism in the bubba dictionary or bubba in the world on honor and integrity?
Don’t ever remember a time when our msm, print or electronic had an ounce of patriotism or honor running thru their veins.
Nope. Because the main stream journalists are so up the leftist, elitist’s @sses they can’t see anything, nor do they want to. Journalists will cease to exist, as we know them, if they continue to be led by the nose by Obama and his leftist administration. They will be as jobless as we are unless they spew exactly what the leftists want them to spew. Dim wits. (Anyway, my boss was a journalism major - not very impressive).
The journalists are Marxists. They want centralized control over speech in the US and everywhere.
No such thing as journalism anymore.
The bigger issue here is not regulation of the dinosaur media, whose demise cannot be accelerated enough, — but the barrier to entry the proto-stalinist left would like to erect in the blogosphere.
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