Comments on: “We Told You So” Alert – The Fourth Estate Bailout

By: jed

jed — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:08:12 +0000

I’m sure the Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal and the Post & Courier would benefit as well as the lefty rags. And for the record, I think it’s ludicrous to think anyone would/should “donate” to a newspaper. If you want to support them, subscribe or buy an ad. This donation thing would open the door for massive contributions from special interests (from all sides) and would more than undo any impression of neutrality that taking endorsements away from them would impart.

By: roofus

roofus — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:39:22 +0000

Jed, you forgot the “Rathergate” and the Duke Lacross Scandal.

Yes, but I do see your point, take away incentives to donate to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, and other such charities, and instead “invest” federal monies to float liberal-leaning newspapers.

By: souiche

souiche — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:32:33 +0000

Watergate? pleeaase… ha!Talk about a ghost of the past! weooooooh!

Jed, go ask Joe the Plumber what he thinks of Watergate.

By: jed

jed — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:25:29 +0000

Yeah, who needs investigative journalism when we have blogs with all the latest on Lindsey, et al. We would have been better off if we’d never had newspapers to expose the dysfunction at DHEC or the Mercury in our rivers or any of the dozens of other stories that can’t be fully covered in less than 30 seconds by a TV reporter or haven’t been leaked to a blogger. If I can’t get my news in sound bytes or innuendo, then I don’t want it. And I’m pretty sure the newspapers just made up the whole Watergate thing. Pinko fags.

By: roofus

roofus — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:22:46 +0000

Whatever happened to the “free press?”

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:58:04 +0000

Tax exempt status for front page newsitorials worshiping the latest leftist drivel?
Did anyone ever mention the FairTax around here?

By: Palmetto_Native

Palmetto_Native — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:11:28 +0000

They already leach off the public dollar because government is forced to publish an inordinant amount of advertising for public notices, etc. They then turn around and charge rates that are many times higher than they charge anyone else for the same amount of space.

Then they dont have to pay sales taxes thanks to a tax exemption they receive that forbids the charging of a sales tax on newspapers…

I think they are already on the dole….

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:52:24 +0000

yeah….government controlled banks….government controlled healthcare…and now government controlled media, this way newspapers cant be the dissenters and watchdogs of politics that it used to be. way to go America.