Posted on 08/05/2011 9:23:43 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Lee Bollinger is an attorney turned academic. Past president of the University of Michigan, Bollinger now holds that position at Columbia University, home of the famed Columbia School of Journalism.
Bollinger believes that coming J school graduates will provide a more valuable service if the American media becomes the de facto property of the federal government.
“…I propose…an American World Service…”, writes Bollinger. “A media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highest quality American journalism to the global forum.” And that “sufficient funding” will be provided by the federal government. From taxpayers.
Why is government funding necessary? Because “…the proliferation of communications outlets has fractured the base of advertising and readers.” And as a result, “newsrooms have shrunk and foreign bureaus have been decimated,” says Bollinger.
It seems that while free enterprise and the internet have expanded the field of news providers, they have also upset the once virtually monopolistic status of the “giants”, robbing them of advertising dollars and audiences.
In short, choice and diversity, those prized catchwords of the Left become dangers when beneficiaries like FOX lead in market share.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
After relaxing at night with some of my favorite Trek episodes, I often indulge in a bit of fantasizing: "transporter room, beam that worthless piece of anti-American gristle to North Korea, ENERGIZE!"
I used to love listening to Radio Tirana and the old Radio Moscow broadcasts, too. My dad and I would huddle around his Hallicrafters SW radio and just burst out laughing at the absurdity of the Communist distortions of world events, as well as the predictable “record” grain harvests and triumphant manufacturing reports. Today of course, we have MSNBC.
we have that now, CNN, MSNBC, FNC, CBS all state run.
All newspapers sift through the NYC priority grinder.
If anything we need LESS media centralizing.
who needs the school of journalism?
seriously?
ANYBODY can be a journalist! ANYBODY!
just say it and you are it. We are ALL journalists.
A degree in journalism is just code for unemployed.
this “please save my job” idiot is coppying the leftist BBC. (they were thrown off a battleship, unfortunatly not literally, due to their anti military bias)
His students have no jobs, no chance at jobs.
if his school is useless for employement then there is no reason for the school to exist.
I don’t recall listening during that period, but I’m sure it was a hoot - “Love Letters to Chairman Mao”. Kinda like NPR, I’d imagine.
I found a fascinating interview here with Joe Adamov, who was the host of Moscow Mailbag on Radio Moscow.
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/prop/deep/interv/p_int_joe_adamov.htm
But fret not, there’s still Radio Pyongyang.
"There is no Izvestiya in Pravda, and there is no Pravda in Izvestiya."
I thought we had a media-run state, but its hard to tell the difference.
LLS
This might have a lot to do with the media’s murderous hysteria over the Tea Party taking power in the House.
They were making noises about Obammy bailing them all out when he first came into office. John McMedia wouldn’t mind.
As Dick Engberg would say, “Oh my!!”
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Great minds do think alike.
That really is fascinating - thank you for sharing it.
Thinking they’d be in Commie paradise after arriving in North Korea, they soon realize they are no more than livestock feed and fertilizer for real Commie elite.
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