Barry proposes newspaper bailout.

[gsvol]

Like who didn't see that coming eventually??

Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to democracy,.........

Good riddance, especially Gannet, NY and LA Slimes and the Washington Post, aka Pravda on the Potomac!!!!

As far as I'm concerned AP, Reuters and the above mentioned outlets ARE the greatest threat to democracy and the free world!!!

Translation of statement by our Bozo in chief;

“Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to COMMUNISM.”

 

[volinbham]

The press dependent on the government - what a great idea!

 

[gsvol]

The press dependent on the government - what a great idea!

And it could get far, far worse than that!

The Federal Trade Commission is threatening to use antitrust and copyright laws to shut down the New Media – and save "mainstream" (aka lame stream)gs, journalism...........

This ominous development ought to scare the pants off of anyone concerned with the maintenance of a free society – and the continued existence of dissent in an increasingly conformist profession where "journalists" are often reduced to the status of mere stenographers as they eagerly communicate to the masses the words, wishes, wit, and wisdom of government officials. (and/or wealthy well funded NGOs)gs

The FTC was the progeny of the "Progressive" Era, which, as Murray Rothbard reminds us, "begins around 1900 with Teddy Roosevelt and so forth. Woodrow Wilson cements it with his so-called reforms which totally subject the banking system to federal power and with the Federal Trade Commission, which did for business what the Interstate Commerce Commission did for the railroads. In other words, he imposed a system of monopoly capitalism, or corporate state monopoly, which we now call the partnership of the government and of big business and industry, which means essentially a corporate state, or we can call it economic fascism."

The creation of the FTC was occasioned by a campaign for the radical expansion of the federal government, and, not coincidentally, the beginning of World War I – a set of circumstances that roughly resembles what we are experiencing today. This gives a particularly sinister edge to the FTC’s sudden interest in the struggling newspaper industry and remarks by FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz to the effect that "Competition among news organizations involves more than just price."

That’s indubitably true: it’s all about content. Yet one fails to see how – in a free society – the government can concern itself with such matters. Or why it should.

That is, until one reads onward in the Times piece, and discovers that Leibowitz "is married to Ruth Marcus, an editorial writer at the Washington Post."

And then there are other ways to silence dissent as well, for instance I had a friend who had a message board/blog in California that catered to a group that opposed some powerful NGOs who steadily get their agenda implemented into American law and have companion terrorist arms. While he was at work one day his home was broken into and all his expensive computer equipment was stolen and he was put out of business since he was footing the bill himself and couldn't afford to start over from scratch.

 

[superdave1984]

Tomorrow Never Dies

 

[gsvol]

Tomorrow Never Dies

Theoretically.

Now if say you subscribe to the big bang theory and think maybe that that event doesn't have eternal or infinite ramifications, would we not expect to have an implosion at some point???

You might call that the 'big suck' theory.

If the universe does happen to be in a big suck mode, all but a few elitists might be condemned to living yesterday every day!!

IMHO, I think the 'big suck' may have begun in November of 1963.

Since then that has been my primary reason for writing in Pat Paulsen and Foster Brooks as my choices for Potus and VP most every years except in the campaign between Carter and Reagan in which I wrote in Mickey and Mightey Mouses!!

I must admit I was surprised at the ex-democrat Reagan though, in many respects.

I must also admit that due to the dynamics of the big suck, I did vote for Bush in 2000 and 2004 because of Gore and Kerry which would have been huge accelerators of big suck and even held my nose and cast a vote for McCain.

Some say my goal of peeing on John Kerry's gravestone is hate, but I say it is merely tough love.

At any rate my plan as of now is to write in Ray Stevens and Larry the Cable Guy in 2010, unless the Republican Party gets a life and gets off life support, at any rate I'll write in Joe Stalin and Fidel Castro before I will ever even consider ever voting for any demonrat!!!

Just further proof President Obama’s administration can be bought.

The majority of the top fifty papers in America....have had declining subscription numbers since the mid-90s.

Likewise public consumption of major media news, in the last thirty years they have lost half their viewers.

The economy has nothing to with any of that, it's the big suck of LSM that has turned off most American consumers.

Adendum:

Defining the alphabet double plus good duck speak visual media:

CNN = Complicit News Network

MSNBC = Main Stream Network Bias and Complacency

CBS = Complicit Bullsh*t Stories

NBC = News By Complicity

ABC = Accessory By Complacency

 

[gsvol]