This one will be short and sweet.
It seems that the failing newspaper business in the country has come to the attention of our president.
In our country, the historically American way to do things is to compete with other sources to supply the best service or commodity at the best price. The people want it and they will purchase it, thereby reinforcing the fact that the service or commodity that you are supplying is in demand. If the people don’t want it, then the business should change their mode of delivery to what the people want.
Not in today’s America. If the government has a vested interest in a business, then it will be deemed unable to fail. Now it looks like the president is ready to support bailing out failing newspapers. If the talk radio shows were in trouble, would he be so quick to bail them out? This is a rhetorical question.
The news paper industry in America is failing because it refuses to do anything but push a left wing agenda. Granted, if they actually supplied the real news and participated in investigative journalism, the papers would probably not need a bailout in the first place. On the other hand, if they did do their job, the government wouldn’t be lining up to bail them out as the government would be looking to silence their truth also.
I guess the actual question is: Should the newspaper industry work for the American People or the American Government? The 2 are not the same anymore!
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I don't like the constitutional implications of this. By supporting failing ones (either left wing pushers or not) and not doing the same with others it looks like favoritism within the press ranks. That give the appearance of messing with the freedom of the press. On top of that the history of salary regulation and CEO manipulation of the bailouts leads one to wonder if it would create the ability for direct manipulation of the press.
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