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Offline Chris_

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Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« on: October 26, 2009, 07:58:43 AM »
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Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?

Have you ever stumbled on an oxymoron so stunning that it takes your breath away? Try coupling this with a case of chutzpah so revealing that the lack of shame on the part of those involved serves as prima fasci evidence that their elite cultural isolation has rendered them incapable of critical thinking.

Behold the "Independent Journalism Tax."

In order to preserve independent journalism in the age of the Internet, a national Fund for Local News should be created with money the FCC now collects from or could impose on telecom users, television and radio broadcast licensees, or Internet service providers.

This is the key recommendation buried on page 91 of a 100 page report issued last week titled "The Reconstruction of American Journalism" by Leonard Downie, Jr. Vice President of the Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Lamenting the demise of the "hegemony that near-monopoly metropolitan newspapers enjoyed during the last third of the twentieth century," these guardians of journalistic integrity recommend that your tax dollars be distributed to their brethren by "Local News Fund Council boards comprised of journalists, educators, and community leaders" to make sure that "advocacy journalism is not endangered."

Report what we tell you to report or you lose your funding.  Got that comrade?

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Re: Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2009, 09:25:57 AM »
Plus their top executives should get a 90% pay cut.
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Re: Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 10:55:25 AM »
Quote from: FGL on October 27, 2009, 09:25:57 AM
Plus their top executives should get a 90% pay cut.

Never gonna happen. They'll say they need to spend more money to attract top recruits to turn the situation around. I'd put money on it.
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Re: Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 11:11:07 AM »
Quote from: bkg on October 27, 2009, 10:55:25 AM
Never gonna happen. They'll say they need to spend more money to attract top recruits to turn the situation around. I'd put money on it.

Oh, I have no doubt that you will, if perhaps not exactly in the way your meant, if the Dems hold onto power long enough.
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Re: Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2009, 10:02:15 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 27, 2009, 11:11:07 AM
Oh, I have no doubt that you will, if perhaps not exactly in the way your meant, if the Dems hold onto power long enough.

Haha... touche.
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Re: Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 10:33:52 PM »
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Re: Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2009, 07:29:57 PM »
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No.

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That is to say, no more than usual. (see: NPR, PBS) And less than usual would be even better.
« Last Edit: October 28, 2009, 07:31:55 PM by ReardenSteel »
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