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Newspaper bailouts
Obama now says he is open to newspaper bailouts...
The president said he is "happy to look at" bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses.
"I haven't seen detailed proposals yet, but I'll be happy to look at them," Obama told the editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade in an interview. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) has introduced S. 673, the so-called "Newspaper Revitalization Act," that would give outlets tax deals if they were to restructure as 501(c)(3) corporations. That bill has so far attracted one cosponsor, Cardin's Maryland colleague Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D). |
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What could go wrong? Everything. Now Obama will control the newspapers and demand they don't print anything "bad" or embarrassing about him. Just print more lies and fluff. That's what could go wrong. Also, just how much money are you willing to have suddenly "disappear" and not get sent to the newspapers? Will this money disappear like it did on the bank bailouts, or disappear like it did to the Iraq war? No one is going to be held accountable to those sudden disappearances. Do you think a newspaper bailout is going to be miraculously handled any differently? NO. |
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 Originally Posted by twinkiedooter
WALLACE: They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.
O'REILLY: And I can't. WALLACE: They constantly are on the phone, or emailing me complaining, well, you had this guest. O'REILLY: Right. WALLACE: Or you did this thing. I mean, they are working the umps all the time. I think it works for the others. It doesn't work |
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Chris Wallace is a Fox news anchor - what do you expect him to say??
Meanwhile:
Republican politicians took some time from their appearances at this weekends Values Voter Summit to promote a conservative opinion site run by the Fox News.
A variety of conservatives who spoke at this past weekend's pow-wow of social conservatives taped bits promoting FoxNation.com, assembled into a video posted on Fox's website. The rightward Fox Nation was launched in late March as an opinion arm of a network seen as itself leaning toward the right. |
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Originally Posted by NeedKarma
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Originally Posted by speechlesstx
On Fox News, host Chris Wallace blatantly lied when he falsely claimed that Rush Limbaugh never said he wanted President Obama to fail, but rather he wanted Obama’s “policies” to fail. However, Limbaugh never said “Obama’s policies.”
WALLACE: I do want to point out though just as a point of information, that Rush Limbaugh says, and I think if you read what he says, he wasn’t saying I want the president to fail. He was saying I want his policies, his agenda to fail and that he disagreed with them and thought they were bad for America. Here are Limbaugh’s exact words, the words “Obama’s policies” do not exist: Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long. I Hope Obama Fails. Somebody’s got to say it. I hope he fails. And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Fox deceptively cuts out 15 seconds from ad critical of Rove - Daily Kos TV (beta) (link contains video) [QUOTE]As you can see, Wallace spliced out 15 seconds from the middle of the ad without disclosing or indicating that it had been edited. Wallace and Rove then went on to discuss the ad with Karl Rove as if they had just played the full thing, even though some of the toughest criticism of Rove (including the firing of U.S. attorneys and the outing of a CIA agent) had been removed from the ad they aired. It’s common practice to use excerpts from ads, but when an ad is spliced together, news organizations should make it clear to their audience that the ad has been edited. They can offer verbal, textual, or visual indications of the edits, but in this case, the ad was presented as if it hadn’t been tampered with at all./QUOTE] |
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That's it?
Rush: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's got to say it. Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed? This is affirmative action, if we do that. We want to promote failure, we want to promote incompetence, we want to stand by and not object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin? Sorry. I got past the historical nature of this months ago. He is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, "I hope he fails." And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing. As for Kos, you give them more credibility than the man with 30 years of journalism experience? |
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NK, Are you saying that you don't see any problem with the government bailing out newspapers? The last time Obama bailed out companies, it was the auto manufacturers. He then proceeded to take them over and run them. He fired their executives, put in his own executives, and started dictating the policies of those companies. So... what happens when the government bails out newspapers? Does the government then take them over as well? Do they start firing editorial staff and putting in staff that they prefer? Do they start making policy for those newspapers? Do they start making editorial decisions for those newspapers? Do they decide what news to print and what news NOT to print? And do those newspapers then become an arm of the government? The left always demands separation of church and state. I think we need a separation between press and state. It's MUCH more important. Elliot |
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Actually Elliot, I think that ties in with what I said earlier on health care that seems to have slipped by mostly unnoticed. He employed 5 networks to plug his health care plans yesterday, he used the NY Times and others to try and nudge Paterson out of the NY governor's race and his administration has employed the National Endowment for the Arts as his propaganda arm - which should have everyone outraged. Of course Obama is open to bailing to newspapers and I don't think it's a stretch to say it's for that very reason, to start making decisions for them. Although for some media you probably wouldn't notice a change.
During his first eight months in office, President Obama has sat down for three times as many television interviews as his most recent two predecessors combined.
And with yesterday's run of the Sunday-morning news show circuit and tonight's airing of "Late Night with David Letterman," Obama continues to blaze through the media hotter than any political figure in modern history. "He's turning the presidency into an infomercial," warned former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer. "It's not just damaging to the White House. It will also ultimately hurt President Obama's image as a fresh, non-Washington leader." The media blitz has won Obama unprecedented wall-to-wall coverage in the mainstream media. In the New York Times alone, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, 405 stories on the Obama administration have appeared on the front page through mid-August of this year totaling 119,678 column inches. That's 9,973 column feet of Obama coverage on the Times front page alone. |
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Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Are you saying that newspapers are communist?
That is why a government bail-out of newspapers must NOT be allowed to happen. If the press is beholden to the government for its financial survival, then the press cannot be free. There is already too much of an issue with the FCC controlling licensing of airwaves for radio and TV media. That already steps very close to government control of media. If the government takes control of print media through a direct takeover of the business, the line will have been crossed. Elliot |
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