Posted on 04/22/2020 11:34:48 PM PDT by rintintin
My heart commands me to support the 19 Democratic senators who want the next stimulus package to include local news businesses, injured like other industries by the coronavirus apocalypse.
Lord knows the senators have a case. About 33,000 news media workers have been laid off, furloughed or had their wages cut since the pandemic arrived, and few news outlets have dodged the damage. Some daily newspapers have reduced the number of days they go to press, and others have stopped printing altogether. This industrywide death spiral hits me personally because I grew up on newspapers, delivering them when I was a kid. I’ve always loved the way newspapers smell and the rustle they make as you course through their pages, and I’ve always enjoyed returning from vacation to plow through a pile of yesterday’s papers and catch up on crime, corruption and culture. Nobody will miss newspapers more than me when they finally vanish.
But my brain knows better than to support any such bailout.
The newspaper business—which is what most people are talking about when they talk about local news—went into eclipse a couple of decades ago, long before coronavirus struck.
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Not essential.
Let every single one go bankrupt.
Don’t waste ANY money on Newspapers.
Die you egg sucking pigs!
Best news I’ve read in a long time.
I agree with the author. As much as I realize that newspapers are dying anyway, I will miss them. I love reading newspapers and I currently work for a community bilingual, French and English, weekly paper. It’s never coming back. Hasn’t published in weeks and I really don’t think it’s coming back. Too many of its advertisers has gone out of business and I just don’t think it’s going to survive. I guess it’s the end of an era.
When the newspapers start reporting well analyzed stories that inform the public about an issue and stop attacking conservative values, then there will be a great reawakening for the press.
Until that day happens, I will continue enhancing my record of not subscribing to any newspaper since 1997.
Art Laffer has been known as an economic genius ever since he popularized the “Laffer Curve” during the Reagan Era. With it, he demonstrated that tax cuts can actually eventually increase government revenue by stimulating economic growth.
He was on the Tucker show last night, and pointed out that NO companies that were struggling BEFORE the virus crisis should be bailed out. You should consider this a mercy killing.
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