What will the newspaper industry look like in 10 years? 20? On Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, CEO and chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch tells us about the foreseeable future of print journalism, including whether a media bailout would work and if consumers will pay for their news online.
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The Free Press cannot be free with government handouts.
What part of that don't people understand?
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The apparent influence of print journalism becomes as GM, with strings attatched. It will be like trying to tell the difference between a black and white and a white and black zebra.
Gee, the Government Media Complex has been shilling for liberals for decades, their business model sucks and now they're going out of business.
I'd say Obama & the Marxists will reward them with billions of our tax $$$$!
I'm getting tired of this Media-bailout balloon being floated, seems like about once a month. Guess the
dems are constantly polling, checking to see if we are asleep at the wheel again. We let them get away
with the union bail-out, disguised as auto co relief, Saudi bail-out disguised as insurance co relief, etc.
They will be constantly testing the wind, looking for SOFT spots in our knowledge & resolve to continue
to funnel money & strength to their friends & allies. What must we do to convince them we are not having
another helping of this EXCREMENT.
Media bailout—baloney! Call it what it is—feeding the propaganda machine.
Nobody buys those publications anymore because it's all lies.
And—nobody is going to pay for lies online either.
There is no question that the propaganda arm of the administration will be bailed out.
Pravda, Isvesta, and Tass are important for the free flow of really important information to the Obamatons, like how much better and cheaper gov'ment "healthcare" will be…
This is a timely interview. For a peek at what's coming, read these two tstimonies before the Joint Economic Committee on "The Future of Newspapers: The Impact on the Economy and Democracy," Sept 2009:
Paul Starr, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University:
"The question that we now face is whether there ought to be changes in law and policy to provide support for journalism not as a special favor to the news media, but to advance the general interest in an informed public."
Starr recommended looking to the N. European style of subsidies "to maintain competition and diversity in the press without limiting its freedom." Also, he would provide "nonprofit support of journalism" enabling, say, the New York Times to become a tax-exempt organization. He stated, "I believe…Congress should consider creating a new category of nonprofit journalistic organizations that are freed from traditional limitation on 501(c)(3) organization. He sites the PBS as a model for enabling, say, WaPo to receive grants as a 501(c)(3). And much more.
Brace for the fight, folks.
Testimony #2 to the Joint Economic Committee on "The Future of Newspapers…."
John Sturm, President & CEO of Newspaper Association of America, testified:
"While online news sources and citizen journalists certainly add perspective to the news, very few provide original, in-depth reporting and analysis, and ever fewer ascribe to the same professional journalism standards." [No comment here to that assertion.] Sturm echoed Starr's nonprofit recommendation and also inferred that sites like Big Journalism should pay for the right to quote mainstream news sources: "The original reporting that is done by newspapers each and every day cannot be sustained over the long run if newspapers are not able to obtain fair and reasonable compensation for the content that they produce. The creators of valuable content cannot survibve without direct compensation from those who use their creative works."
They're coming.
Wow PBS- that bright lite of UNbiased political discorse.
I wonder why he didnt suggest the NPR model? Could it be that Paul doesnt belive that NPR provides a balanced look at current events?
PS: Just a little side note-
I was listening to NPR on the way in. They talked about Rupert, I belive they called him a "Pirate of the news industry."
There is a part of this that I agree with.
When someone here, or on any blog, quotes another story they should site their source.
I admit that I am guilty of it form time to time.
But sourcing provides a link back to the orginal text/ online site-
this increases that sites hits and adds add revenue.
If the original sources want to charge for their content, then they are compinsated on the front end.
Any quoets after that must be sited are a pretty much the same as a research paper.
I promise to try to do bettter in the future and hope my fellow bloggers at the BIGS will join me in that effort.
Togather we can make the BIGS a far more accurate site for news/commentary than Daily Kos, Beastm HuffPoo,
and have links back to original cantext to prove it.
If the NYT, WaPo, LATimes, Tribune, and all the rest would examine their slanted business model, make corrections to bring their coverage more toward the center by telling the ENTIRE story, bailouts and subsidies would be UNNESESSARY…
And furthermore….If they think charging for substandard online content will work, IMO, they are still Econ101 illiterates..
If the papers/media in general, would start reporting the news instead of propaganda, people would stop going to British news and the internet.
ABC and the rest, decides what is and is not news according to the views of it's staff.
There is nothing more boring then constant propaganda.
People will not tolerate being lied to.
Sins of omission are the worst kind of lies.
The quote of Dan Rather, getting teary eyed, "Its time the government made an effort to assure the survival of the Free Press. If we do nothing more than stand back and hope that innovation alone will solve this crisis, then our best trained journalists will loose their jobs…"
Such hogwash! I agree with Murdoch, "Rubbish and very dangerous!" It is obvious that Rather is not a true believer in the Free Press with this statement. The minute the government intercedes with a bailout, they are government run. The free market will guarantee the "best trained journalists" will always have a job, because they will writing articles that are factual and without bias. Rather exposed himself with that statement for the socialist, he is along with many of the journalistic minions out there……
I'm tripping all over myself trying to find a Dan Rather pay-per-view blog so I can keep up with the facts of what's going on in world.
I suppose running episodes of Family Guy is one way to make money, Mr. Moloch. You are playing both ends against the middle and in the end you lose. You have FoxNews only because it makes money, not because you agree with anything they say. You would just as soon have progressives on FoxNews, if they made the money.
You supported Hillary Clinton, right?
You have terrorist friendly groups heavily invested in your businesses, right?
For all we know, you are simply what Glenn Beck calls a distraction for the progressives. You might be in bed with Soros, for all we know, and simply distracting us with the old left hand/right hand dodge.
Until you get rid of your smutty programming, we cannot trust you at all.
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