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To: LibertyRocks; djf
INDEPENDENCE FROM FOSSIL MEDIA, NOW!

The media aren't the problem...it's that we have too few of them. The guys in the smoky brick townhouse would say we should be founding more newspapers, not tearing them down.

"...were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson

118 posted on 06/20/2008 5:56:26 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

I agree - I should’ve added the LOL or /sarc... It was just a play on words with the liberal mantra of fossil fuels. :)


120 posted on 06/20/2008 6:00:30 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (My Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & NEW http://exposingobama.wordpress.com)
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To: Gondring; LibertyRocks

There’s a political/publicity aspect of this that I haven’t heard mentioned.

Is AP, no matter how they try to spin it with arguments about copyright or what constitutes fair use, is the result of their arguments some kind of conclusion they they “own the news”?

Most Americans would be repulsed by this conclusion. And rightly so.


122 posted on 06/20/2008 6:13:10 PM PDT by djf (I don't believe in perpetual motion. Perpetual mutton, that's another thing entirely!)
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To: Gondring
"...were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson

Highly partisan new media fulfills Jeffersonian ideals far better than mass media's fatally flawed notions of Lippmann objectively.
123 posted on 06/20/2008 6:19:38 PM PDT by Milhous (Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies)
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