The Daily Plunge » Bail Outs http://www.dailyplunge.com Plunging Towards Gomorrah Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:33:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 bailing out newspapers http://www.dailyplunge.com/2009/09/bailing-out-newspapers/ http://www.dailyplunge.com/2009/09/bailing-out-newspapers/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:45:40 +0000 Henshaw http://www.dailyplunge.com/?p=1792 Conservatives love to complain about the media. I’m as guilty of it as anyone. Media bias is real, but I should add how much better things are now than they were twenty years ago. Before the internet and cable news the only source for information came from the big three networks and big city newspapers. Over 75% of journalists vote for the Democratic Party so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to decipher a liberal bias no matter how objective the press tries to be. However, things have changed.
Part of the reason the left is so outraged by Foxnews and talk radio is because they loved the status quo. Foxnews is the outcome of the free market. Conservatives were tired of liberal news and Fox filled the void. MSNBC has made a similar move for ratings. I’m not sure if this is a negative development. If people want to be closed minded and get their news from a single source I can’t see how this is worse than the 60s.
There’s a lot to be learned about President Obama, but it does appear he has a thin skin when it comes to dissent. When faced with real problems with his vague proposals, ludicrous Czar appointments, and other police issues he tends to blame the “blogosphere” for lying. There’s no question misinformation exists but that’s not the president’s problem. He should be more concerned with his own loose grip on facts. The death of old media is of great concern to Democrats. It appears the President is open to bailing out newspapers.

“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” he said.

If these newspapers become non-profit 501(c)(3) corporations they will have to remain objective to keep their tax status. Who is going to decide what’s objective? I certainly do not believe that we can have a free and independent press if the government is looking over editors’ shoulders.
Why do liberals believe bureaucrats are noble and businessmen are evil? Without delving into a whole philosophic inspection of the nature of mankind I argue that neither is noble; however, if I chose not to shop at Walmart they can’t use the power of the state to force me to purchase their products. Isn’t Vladimir Putin clamping down on the Russian press in order to “put stories in context.” I wonder if Obama is starting to completely lose touch with reality or if he really is a statist. I’m sure we’ll be writing more about this subject in the future.

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