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2010-08-07 Home Front: Politix

In Arguing for Federal Press Subsidies, Lee Bollinger Advocates a Fascist Media

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Posted by miscellaneous 2010-08-07 02:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Money quote:

In short, he prefers yet another public-private partnership, the now-familiar progressive corporatist model that met with such success in Italy in the 1920s. Odd, how the private party in that arrangement always turns out to be the junior partner. And yet he maintains that state support does not translate into official control. He seems not to have learned the popular phrase: he who pays the piper calls the tune.

Posted by Pappy 2010-08-07 16:44|| 2010-08-07 16:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The press should survive or perish on their own, try cutting out the FAT, become honest brokers of news and information, and stop whining.

Posted by Goodluck 2010-08-07 18:20|| 2010-08-07 18:20|| Front Page Top

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