Posted on 07/14/2010 2:27:10 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
I’ve been flagging the MSM newspaper bailout campaign for the last two years (chronology recap here). The clamor for big government to rescue old media has not died now.
The latest? Columbia University president Lee Bollinger doing the Chicken Little routine in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
As I wrote back in December 2008 in opposition to newspaper moochers:
How “free” can a “free press” be if it is leveraged with government funding? How free would they be to criticize other corporate enterprises seeking local, state, or federal help to keep them afloat in hard times? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A press beholden to the ruling class – a press that cannot stand on its own two feet and the strength of its products — is a press better off dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
"The proliferation of communications outlets has fractured the base of advertising and readers. Newsrooms have shrunk dramatically and foreign bureaus have been decimated."
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck don't seem to be having any trouble attracting advertisers and listeners/readers. Maybe the problem is not proliferation of communications outlets but the slanted and pi$$ poor reporting by the main stream media.
I am a 75 year old gentleman who takes BLOOD PRESSURE medicine each day. My fear is that subjecting my poor heart to the insults of the Main Stream Media, would negate whatever help the BP pills do.
I admit, I miss my daily papers. I would miss my life more.
I do listen to Limbaugh and Beck because they are smart enough to agree with ME, not the other way around.
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Exactly. I remember when I first started listening to Rush back in 1991. My wife heard the show one day while we were driving somewhere. She said: "He sounds just like YOU!"
Rush was articulating, with his normal, great skill, the same things I had been saying to my wife for years.
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