Comments on: UPDATED: Newspaper bailout proposed, offering non-profit status… or more stealth “affirmative action” fairness doctrine?

By: The Pelosi Smoke Screen: Stories You May Be Ignoring In the Meantime : Stop The Liberals Now

Sun, 17 May 2009 08:15:38 +0000

[...] Fox News and the Wall Street Journal increase reader and viewership, the liberally biased media continues to slip in ratings and consumers. The serious issue at hand with government media bailouts is the slant [...]

By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Three big stories you’re missing while dancing on Pelosi’s political grave…

Sat, 16 May 2009 20:01:08 +0000

[...] start out by applauding the proposed media bailout I posted on late March. Then the piling on [...]

By: sigmundringeck

sigmundringeck — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:33:01 +0000

BIG MEDIA trying to get govt subsidies for their corruption, mismanagement and non-profitability.
I don’t see govt control increasing, because many of these half-dead newspapers are cheerleaders and bootlickers for extreme liberalism anyway.

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:38:01 +0000

All Things Considered, we have already spent toooo much taxpayer dollars on so-called news organizations. Can you imagine the appointment of Bill Moyers or Nina Totenberg as a News Czar in Obama’s new Shadow Administration should this ever go through?

It seems that the community organizer has all his ducks in a row and a congress critter here and there eagerly carrying the ball down the field for him as he plots his next play.

By: Scott Malensek

Scott Malensek — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:58:52 +0000

OH SUH-WHEAT! Flopping Aces is non-profit. Maybe if we publish something in print we can get a bailout!!!!!!!!!!

By: bill-tb

bill-tb — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:02:25 +0000

ummm, does anybody think this is what the First Amendment means, government runs the free press?

By: tfhr

tfhr — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:00:45 +0000

More like the “Fishwrapper Revitalization Act” and as far as being “non-profit”, the NYT has been operating at a loss for years!

By: MataHarley

MataHarley — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:40:28 +0000

Another form of “community organizing”, playwithfire… The bill targets “local community papers” most especially.

One way to view it…. Sell it out to a non-profit minority, it’s a local ACORN rag with government tax breaks, working over the ‘hood to spread Obama’s agenda.

By: Wisdom

Wisdom — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:31:45 +0000

@playwithfire: Kind of like the auto bailouts. Gotta keep the old business model alive. It's a nostalgia thing.

By: playwithfire

playwithfire — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:38:31 +0000

How would this change the fact that the newpaper is becoming obsolete? Why does our country need to spend more money on something that can be so easily replaced?

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:31:39 +0000

O’Dumbo traded in his teleprompters (might have been the neck pain from the last time he was on TV), His head swiveled like a mouse watching a copperhead. Maybe he thought (not all that smart you know) that no one would notice the answers popping up on the big screen TV in front of him. How dumb is he, really?

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:28:24 +0000

I’d like to see the clowns in media try to comply with the requirements of a 501c tax exemption. They’ll get busted every week.

By: ruaqtpi2

ruaqtpi2 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:18:53 +0000

If anyone wants to know how this could end up, do some research on the newspaper Zvezda.

Jeff V