Federal bail-out of mainstream news media?

The Washington TImes ^ | 12/09/08 | Jennifer Harper

[lakeprincess]

The MSM is also going broke, with 15,000 layoffs and buyouts in 2008 in newspapers alone. Some propose a federal bailout for struggling media, a notion met with some fierce opposition by those who say it would compromise credibility and possibly First Amendment rights.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[dalereed]

stop all bailouts!

The government is stealing from me to fun them, let every homeowener and business that can’t make it go broke and out of business!!!!!!!!

[dalereed]

everyone keeps talking about NPR and in my 71 years I have yet to find it on a radio, not that I would listen to it just like PBS is off limits in this house.

[SunkenCiv]

Cool. Then the failure of the gubmint to impose the “fairness doctrine” on print media will be strictly academic.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping/post/link. Very good thread. Thanks to all contributors.

[T Lady]

'I can't imagine a free press propped up by the federal government. But there were not many people who had sympathy for the press, telling me 'you people deserve it,' or 'you made your bed, liberal media,'" Mr. McClellan said. "Journalists are a lot less popular than auto workers."'

Yes, you are, Mr. McClellan, and for a rather obvious reason which you did have the decency to state.

...And at least the auto workers actually make some products Americans actually like and can use. This is definitely not the case with an organization that went out of its way to get an unelectable politician elected while viciously attacking a far more suitable statesperson, whose character you all continue to assassinate to this day.

[KellyM37]

Let’s see.
Govt owned or bail outs:
Fannie and Freddie
IGA
Other banks
GM which is really UAW
now media?????
Do you all not see a pattern here?

[T Lady]

I know...and I too am getting pretty darned sick and tired of it...

The MSM having the audacity to ask for our financial assistance, in lieu of the atrocious 2008 Election coverage, and foisting an ultra Liberal upon us as the next Commander In Chief is more than I can stand...what the MSM did to America in this election cycle amounts to nothing more than the American Idolization of politics.