Posted on 06/04/2010 6:31:38 PM PDT by Nachum
Journalism can reinvent itself without government 'help'
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking ways to "reinvent" journalism, and that's a cause for concern. According to a May 28 draft proposal, the agency thinks government should be at the center of a media overhaul. The bureaucracy sees it as a problem that the Internet has introduced a wealth of information options to consumers, forcing media companies to adapt and experiment to meet changing market needs. FTC's policy staff fears this new reality.
"There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for commercial journalism," the report states. With no faith that the market will work things out for the better, government thinks it must come to the rescue.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yeah but most of them do not work, live on their parents expense, or live on welfare. It is always easy for someone to ask for more taxes when someone does not pay taxes.
Liberty will always win.
They are looking for a big fat law suit!
“Though the mainstream media are nothing more than a
mouthpiece for this administration”
They have been nothing more than a mouthpiece for the left for decades.
Even in FDR’s time, they wore out set after set of kneepads.
Since the early 1980s, I have held that the media are some of the Constitution’s most dangerous enemies. Naturally, Chairman Maobama wants to keep them alive, and is willing to spend any amount of your money to do it.
Yeah, let 'em try, and we'll swell tenfold overnight.
(i.e., BRING IT!!)
I got to get a copy one of these days.
“The Internet has made owning an extremely powerful press very cheap, which concerns those whose power is based on presses being rare and expensive.”
Very well said, indeed.
Me steal.
1st Amendment = Separation of Press and State
A character in a book by Ayn Rand -- and it's spelled Galt.
Or, were you being facetious?
What you are describing is distribution of content. That is what they want to control, the distribution. It doesn't matter what someone says if no one hears it. It is very similar to Joe Stalin's comment that it doesn't matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.
There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for commercial journalism," the report states. With no faith that the market will work things out for the better, government thinks it must come to the rescue.
There is no better example of the Leftist Elite's attitude. They don't understand the market and they don't trust the individual. They trust a few coordinated bureaucrats, as long as it is their bureaucrats, more than they trust the uncoordinated decisions of millions of individuals.
R. Buckminster Fuller said that free enterprise has the unique ability to transform the selfish desires of the individual into a good for the whole. Don't know who R. Buckminster Fuller is? Look it up. You will be impressed!
Yup. I’ve got it set up as an actual bumper sticker here: http://www.zazzle.com/liberalism_defined_bumper_sticker-128202017737005207?gl=oceander
(I use the zazzle site more because it’s easier to put a lot of different images up at the same time)
From hell.
The FTC and its LAWYERS have their heads up their arses.
Trust me, I know.
The FTC has had their employees actually go to seminars that teach that blogs, the internet, etc., is not “real journalism”. The utter disdain that these people feel for the average person cannot really be emphasized enough...
chavez would be proud
Hey media you wanted this, you voted for this then enjoy your reporting for the lie machine
*ping*
and if we take power all across the board will the same left wing spewing hateful kooks enjoy this then?
this is to control the reporting and media , that is it, Chavez would be proud of this.
What is astounding that the media are still not reporting on this in great detail
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