[Fwd: Will The Washington Post Get a Government Bailout?]
Banks Failed because of their Greed & being scammed by Madoff
Car Companies failed because they are making shoddy cars & not keeping up with the times & needs of American Buyers & having prices that people can't afford when they are taking Pay Cuts due to all of our Factory & Call Center Jobs being Out Sourced to Non-American Employees in 3rd World Countries
Now the News Papers Want Our Tax Dollars because they can't Sell their Papers? They haven't kept up with the times we are in & offering enews alerts with links to the news on their websites or twitter updates etc & most importantly they have failed to provide news in a timely manner that offers All Sides to the important news of the day so their readership is dropping because there just isn't any interest in their news papers so our tax dollars should now go towards paying for their lack of leadership & poor management decisions?
Call your congress people & tell them enough is enough - pass extensions on the unemployment benefits for the American citizens so they can keep their homes & apartments & afford to buy food & heat & let the news papers start becoming relevant so that people might want to buy them instead of wasting money on those select few big business people
Those people who are running the papers, well maybe it's time for them to divest & split & stop being irrelevant reporting in a skewed manner & reporting more on what's going on with the working people who chose or chose not to buy their papers - if the tiny local Free Papers can afford to keep going then there is no reason that those giant news paper corporations can't learn from their example & downsize where they need & start reporting in a manner that will make the working people Want to Buy Their Paper Again like we used to in times past back in the day when news papers actually did some Real Reporting of News
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Dear Reader, This past week the battle over the future of news came to a head. Len Downie, a vice president and the former editor of The Washington Post, called for government funding for journalism. Downie added his voice to a chorus of liberals, politicians and journalists who want government very involved in the news. While Downie claims it isnt a bailout, thats exactly what hes calling for. Dan Gainor of the Business & Media Institute, our sister department, called it in a report released a week before Downies effort. Gainors analysis of The Great Newspaper Bailout is a sobering look at how involved government is trying to get in the daily news. Here are just a few scary facts;
The Great Newspaper Bailout is the kind of essential news about business and the economy that the Business & Media Institute delivers on a regular basis. Craig Bannister |