Newspapers back then were basically propaganda rags that spewed scandalous libel to make the conspiracy theorists of today look credible. People such as Benjamin Franklin Bache and James Callender made their careers by destroying the reputation of others (Washington, Adams, Hamilton).

So, *GO FOR IT*, Obama and Dems.
Just, *Go for it*!

I dare you.
I *double* dare you.

Go ahead – Make my day…

The saying was, “In the Truth there is no News and in the News there is no Truth.” We’re about there. We only have to get to, “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work” and we’ll have the perfect socialist workers’ paradise.

We’ve got all those folks who get up on their hind legs about any governmental or quasi-governmental organization even mentioning religion. Since freedom of the press is guaranteed in that same First Amendment, I expect that they will all rise up in equally vigorous protest at this concept.

Won’t they?

Yep.

Any day now.

(Oh, sorry, that was just me, kicking the snark-o-matic. It seems to be stuck on overdrive)

(Nice job, bro)

to stop publishing the “Public Notices” in the dead tree rag and go online with them. Also, you can threaten to stop advertising government jobs in a paper; they screech like stepped on cats over that too.

No Red State governor should allow the public notices to be published in an unfriendly paper or advertise any government jobs in one. When you have them by the wallet, their hearts and minds follow.

because all those TV appearances didn’t get him an Emmy.

and CBS gets reviewed and slashed by the compensation czar? Oh Pinch? Katy? Heh.

All the MSM big shots are already rich.
They are pushing Obama’s agenda.
They will never live the lives they wish to impose upon us.
Little tiny electric cars for us while they have limousines.
Little tiny houses for us while they live in mansions.
Little tiny salaries for us while they are all filthy rich.
Crappy public schools for our kids while they send theirs to private school.
Canada style healthcare for us while they have their own private doctors.
We all reduce our carbon foot print while they all travel in private jets.

If they can just prop up Obama long enough for all of that to happen then to them it will all be worth it.
They are agenda driven.

So, the press would be moving from amateur to professional weasel status, then?

The proposal isn’t really as bad as is made out. The government wouldn’t control what’s printed after conversion to nonprofit status than they do now.

There are numerous outlets that operate as non-profits, the National Review comes to mind. Allowing newspapers to convert their status – well, they’ve got to do something with what’s left of the newspaper industry after it clears bankruptcy court. Why not a nonprofit?

That said, I’m not sure what this is supposed to accomplish – it’s not like what’s killing the newspaper industry is the crushing burden of taxes on their profits.

Sean Parnell
President
Center for Competitive Politics
http://www.campaignfreedom.org

The First Amendment doesn’t expressly forbid it.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

I think there is enough opportunity for “abridging the freedom of the press” via govt involvement/ownership but that’s me, I’m not lawyer, much less a card carrying member of the ACLU.

The worst opposition they could expect from within Congress would be similar to the complaints about “requiring citizens to purchase health insurance.” There would be a couple mentions of it and some grumbling but I don’t see any great defenders of the Constitution in Congress.

If the Congress ignores it it will come down to the SCOTUS and they will do their best to ignore it as long as they can. Even a couple years down the road, if the SCOTUS decides to take a case there is no guarantee the libs and squishes on the court won’t allow it.

The only thing we can do is force our elected representatives to take action before the action is taken, the SCOTUS is not the only branch of government that takes an oath to defend the Constitution.

This will show us which Republicans are listening to the Tea Parties.

Repeal, Rescind, Reset….

Undo every bit of damage the dems will have done since 2006
.

“Let me make this perfectly clear – I am not interested in taking over newspapers.”

Enjoy it over at TheRealRevo.com:

http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=13453

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

Not one tax-payer dime…

last time I tried to ‘read’ the paper, I couldn’t….why?..because they made the font smaller to fit more on less pages…brilliant

I had to bust out the Tri-focals

NPR and the CPB. Bastions of liberal drivel both….

That is, non-profit status includes agreement to content regulation in order to protect your tax status, in particular to what would constitute impermissable political activity.

So the free press would become shackled to government agents deciding what they can or cannot publish regarding the government, which means backdoor or self censorship by a press that is dependent on the government teat for it’s financial solvency.

So we will have the shell of a newspaper industry that has voluntarily agreed to government censorship – but even worse, this then becomes justification for shutting down other public venues of speech through burdensome taxation, new libel/slander laws with owner liability for all content, or instance, licensing regulations (such as Fairness doctrine and/or localism) – with the newspapers cheerleading these efforts to wipe out their competitors.

Think McCain-Feingold special exemption for newspapers and magnify this with multiple other discriminatory regulations and laws.

Welcome to Orwell 2.0, the 21st century version.

Has any one considered that the “slow play” of the Stimulus Funds may be very deliberate.

Thar among other things that these funds are being “held back” to provide a mammoth election year “Slush Fund” for the Obamachine.

And, what better way than to use these funds to “purchase” a “drool bucket” press.

This is Stimulus we can understand. It is morally corrupt on several levels and slips carefully around the 1st Amendment (as if what is going on right now is not a 1st Amendment Tragedy).

I am in my seventies and I have never seen anything like the 9/12 turnout for the grandaddy of all Tea Parties. God Bless America and all those wonder ful people who care, really care.

PC is Thought Control
LEE

Obama has really got to feel right at home in the criminally corrupt Washington District of Corruption (formerly WDC). Chicago on the Potomac

If they do bailout the newspapers, we will have official state run media. We must keep our country free.