Whether admitted or not, the newspapers haven’t been reporting the news for a long time. The FCC doesn’t have to “take over” newspapers, too may liberals have BOUGHT the newspapers.
The paper here in Mobile, they leave stuff out all the time and are now going to “revamp” the paper into two sections.
I feel like my heads gonna explode.
Newspapers are undergoing a self-clean-up episode currently. If some dimwit bought a paper back in the 1980s and converted it as a cheerleader function for one particular party....they find themselves today with a profitless newspaper. They actually have to find money somewhere in another pocket to pay for the bare minimum in reporters and cover production cost.
NewsWeak and Time are valued at roughly $1 each today. That says a lot about the anchor tied onto them and their ability to ever recover. Whoever owns them....needs massive profits from a second business front....to cover his or her “hobby”.
CNN is reaching the same climax....unable to cover current production costs because of declining profits. Their owner has to be extremely wealthy in other affairs...to cover this sinking ship. MSNBC is not much better.
I’m not sure this monitor business will be seen as practical and helpful to the current players. 2016 isn’t far off....a new regime change....Republican president....suddenly the monitors will be all over MSNBC and CNN.
I should add this...there’s nothing that says Fox News needs to stay with it’s operation in the US. They could easily move into Quebec or run their production studio from some off-shore boat, and just transmit via satellite across the nation. At that point....the FCC game is useless, and they might as well get back to monitoring Jeopardy and Saturday morning cartoons.