Thread: Obama wants to take over the newspapers now

[quote name='Stinger' date='20 September 2009 - 05:36 PM' timestamp='1253486204' post='24144']

Obama open to newspaper bailout bill

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...r-bailout-bill



"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."



So would they be able to report on political issues and take sides editorially?



"I am concerned that if the direction of the news....."



It is not his concern as President.



How long before he takes over the boards of the newspapers and fires the CEO's and tells them what news they can or can't print?

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Just like his Hero Chavez. Thing is how is he going to MAKE people start reading them again. The news papers are going out of bussines for a good reason. Most they traded their integrity and objectivity for a political agenda the support.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had played down thepossibility of government assistance for news organizations, which havebeen hit by an economic downturn and dwindling ad revenue.



Inearly May, Gibbs said that while he hadn't asked the presidentspecifically about bailout options for newspapers, "I don't know what,in all honesty, government can do about it."

Not likely. Take a few Tums and calm down.

[quote name='Six' date='20 September 2009 - 05:49 PM' timestamp='1253486955' post='24156']

Just like his Hero Chavez. Thing is how is he going to MAKE people start reading them again. The news papers are going out of bussines for a good reason. Most they traded their integrity and objectivity for a political agenda the support.

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Like Fox News and, more specifically, Glenn Beck?

The Messiah want's the taxpayer to yet once again involuntarily support industries it's voluntarily decided it doesn't not wish to support, ie, if the LA Times wasn't such a shitty left-wing rag of a newspaper, it wouldn't be having such severe circulation problems and the coinciding problems of getting the advertisers to pay for space in that rag.



Did the LA Times break the ACORN scandal? Why not? Because they're a left wing rag and won't investigate their own.



Did the LA Times endorse a full slate of left-wing scumbag trash for all local, state, and national elections for the last twenty years I've been living in Los Angeles? Yes, so reliably so that no American would even think about subscribing to that trash.



Does the LA Times defend the illegal invasion of the United States? Of course they do. Then more people decide they don't want to buy that rag.



If they can't cover the news honestly (they don't), if their editorial policies resemble the same anti-American bullshit we see from all the left-wing fish-wraps in the nation (and they do), then it's not suprising the free market has been shutting them down.



Too bad for them. They're just a commercial business. If they fail, they fail. No loss, since the paper already refuses to "give something back" to it's community...like the truth.



The Constitution did not allow the Messiah to confiscate GM and Chrysler, nor does it allow the Messiah to assist private newspapers. They live and die on their own abilities, people.



Fortunately, it looks like the LA Times is dying.