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2009-02-14 Britain

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10325 views ] Top

#1 IMO, the establishment of National Endowment for Child Molestation is even more urgent.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-14 08:03|| 2009-02-14 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The real alternative is to go back to their roots as simply broadsheets for the political parties they represent. Back in the 19th Century, that is what they were. That they started to attract advertising and make money was just a spin off rather than a goal. So, let's see the parties directly carry the load of propagandizing the masses rather than any government subsidy. Pay your party dues and get a subscription at the same time. Of course, the Donks won't support this because it would involve their own money. Socialism only works till the other guys money runs out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-14 08:35|| 2009-02-14 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't see how this can occur without the government also (eventually) regulating the content. Anything that government dollars are spent on, the argument goes, are subject to "accountability" which is subject to political pressure from the party in charge.

Posted by WTF 2009-02-14 08:35|| 2009-02-14 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 "Anything that government dollars are spent on, the argument goes, are subject to "accountability" which is subject to political pressure from the ~~party~~ the Far-Leftist Democrats, no matter which party is in charge."

Fixed that for ya', W.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-02-14 10:22|| 2009-02-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL Onion!

Posted by .5MT 2009-02-14 10:38|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-02-14 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 " losing a vibrant core of investigative reporters covering local, national and international stories"

Losing? It hasn't existed in 20 years. They are all slanted now, from the choice of pejorative and prejudicial wording, slecting which facts to include or ignore to slant individual articles, to the choice of which stories to puslish and which to ignore.

Journalism is dead. Good riddance.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-14 11:04|| 2009-02-14 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 A Pew study indicates that 15,000 journalists lost their jobs in the US in 2008

See, there is a silver lining to our current economic problems! I suppose the market for Obama cheerleaders is saturated.

Posted by DMFD 2009-02-14 11:28|| 2009-02-14 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Pro-terror presstitutes should consider the fate of their predecessors, Goebbels and Streicher, and count themselves lucky if bankruptcy is all they get.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-02-14 11:56|| 2009-02-14 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 There already is a national endowment for journalism. It's housed in the Columbia University's School of Journalism, the University of Missouri's School of Journalism (or is it Mississippi? 3dc can tell us), etc.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-02-14 13:47|| 2009-02-14 13:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I would prefer a memorial.

Newspapers should just die and let us move on.

Posted by DoDo 2009-02-14 14:32|| 2009-02-14 14:32|| Front Page Top

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