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GOPUSA » The Loft » Government Looks to 'Control'... Ummmm... 'Save' Old Media

Bobby_Loft

For all those people out there who don't understand what Barack Obama and his left-wing cohorts want to do to this country, just look at what has happened so far. Through various legislation and actions, Obama's government has gained partial control of the banking industry, finance, automobile production, energy, and, of course, health care. The whole idea is control... the more the government owns, the more it controls, and the less freedom the American people have. So, it should come as no surprise that Obama's socialist administration has set its focus on the media. In an effort to "save" old media, the administation is proposing a set of "guidelines" that would put the government in more control of the "news" that is delivered to the people. If this doesn't smack of "thought police," I don't know what does.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a "discussion draft" of what it calls Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism. I didn't realize that journalism (real journalism, that is) needed to be "reinvented," but leave it to Obama's government to propose "solutions" where there are no problems.

The document is based on the struggling newspaper industry. I guess it doesn't matter that other forms of media are booming, but because newspapers are starting to go into debt and fail, then the government must step in. Hello! It's 2010, not 1955! The report notes that advertising revenue from newspapers has fallen "approximately 45% since 2000. For example, classified advertising accounted for $19.6 billion in revenue for newspapers in 2000, $10.2 billion in 2008, and is estimated to be only $6.0 billion in 2009."

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