Posted on 06/06/2010 2:59:00 AM PDT by The Raven
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking ways to "reinvent" journalism, and that's a cause for concern. According to a May 24 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.
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In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Certainly. They want to control every aspect of every America not in the power elite. They want to play their experimental social experiments. They treat the underlings (poor, unions, illegals) like a house full of adopted cats, providing food and shelter and toys in exchange for subservient dependence and an occasional rub on the leg. They want to place us all under their communist authoritative control to insure we all place nice together, and this time it will "work" because it has "never been done right before".
... because to the DNC and Obama, the final solution
is only a door away, now that they are here.
Under a Marxist regime, it is not enough for them to have
most of the MSM in broadcast and print.
They must have it ALL.
By this time next year, the USA will no longer exist as the country that I grew up in.
If this was logical, then:
(1) We ought to charge folks every time that they quote Steinbeck or Hemingway, and redistribute that money to the original author’s family.
(2) We ought to charge folks whenever they appear on the air and say “BP”, or “Chrysler”, or “Toyota”, and hand that money to the mentioned company.
(3) We ought to charge senators and congressmen when they appear on any nationally syndicated show and recover part of the money for the national budget.
What many miss...and fail to appreciate...is that a good deal of the Federal Power Grab..merely reflects the expanding “needs” of the Federal bureaucracy. Every 20 years (think immigration reform” 1986...and the failed run they had at it in 2006; instead they “got healthcare” this year) a host of GS-15’s tries to break into the SES pay grade. This requires a substantial expansion of their agency’s scope and power to justify another cadre of administrative leadership. “Immigration Reform” is the fastest route to a quantum increase in population and concurrent administrative opportunity for the Feds. The FTC bureaucrats are running out of activities to justify their continued existence and advancement. This is THE primary engine driving Federal Expansion...and needs We the People to implement a governor on it.
The real game is DC versus Flyover Country. It does’nt come to an end until all in Flyover Country finally get it. IMHO, they are just starting to wake up
The USA today is not like the country in which we grew up.
Once, Americans could walk anywhere.
Once, Americans were equal.
Once, American ingenuity was encouraged.
Then the US Congress and Obama arrived to change all that.
If Les Otten ( More Rotten, Les is More Otten) is what Mainers are holding out hope for, Mainers are in for a world of hurt. Otten is as big a narcisist as “The One”.
Otten had one sucess with Sunday River, more to do with market timing than inspired managment. His ego led him to form ASC which was an unmitigated disaster less to do with market timing and everything to do with poor ego driven managment
The USA today is not like the country in which we grew up.
Once, Americans could walk anywhere.
Once, Americans were equal.
Once, American ingenuity was encouraged.
Then the US Congress and Lyndon Johnson arrived to change all that.
At what point do we take up arms?
The real game is DC versus Flyover Country. It does’nt come to an end until all in Flyover Country finally get it. IMHO, they are just starting to wake up”
I propose the Western States of America:
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
S Dakota
N Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Idaho
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Alaska
They have the most in common & can support themselves with their own resources & abilities.
Set up & patrol their own borders.
Get back to basics
Let the rest of the Liberal country sink in it’s own mire.
Obama wants to turn the US into a People’s Socialist Republic that resembles East Germany.
And like all times before, it will end in a mountain of corpses and a devastated land.
Matt Drudge and other aggregators: “Panama and Costa Rica, here we come! Let’s see you try to tax us there!” I could see a mass movement of aggregators and entepreneurs to tax-friendly countries.
Its the cool thing to be anti-Obama now. I am totally awed when I hear of people right out of the blue suggesting small examples of protest and even forms of sabotage in any way no matter how small that would be viewed as a message with their displeasure of Obama, his goals, his policies.
A lot more anti-liberal bumper stickers showing up in my area.
And I even saw an “Impeach Obama!” graffiti on a railcar going by.
I think the Sleeping Giant is starting to awake, too many people that thought they had a secure deal with Obamas planning are getting shortchanged, and their loyalty came with a price tag.
What the FTC wants is to control the information, much like Hugo Chavez has control of the information in Venezuela. It's about tyranny and nothing else.
On the other hand they know how to pay for internet porn with credit cards, because that's the particular business model that study group seemed to have in mind.
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