Posted on 02/08/2017 4:28:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
Republican Gov. John Kasich repeated his belief in the importance of the free press Wednesday as tensions between the media and the administration of President Donald Trump remain high.
The former congressman and 2016 presidential contender declined to directly take on Trump, who he refused to endorse, campaign with or vote for last year, while speaking to editors and publishers convened by the Ohio Newspaper Association.
But Kasich said he wanted to see the industry survive and thrive.
“I’d like to stand for all of you, for all of you who have real content, for all of you who’ve decided in a really crazy, changing world that your point of view, your editorials, your writings, your articles are critically important,” Kasich said. …
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“So I have a job waiting for me when this political thing no longer works.”
I’m surprised there still is such a thing as the Ohio Newspaper Association. Be honest with them, Gov. Tell them they need to face that the newspapers are never coming back to that same level of influence. Time to downsize, like all the way down to a skeleton crew and an efficient collection of graphic computers.
... so I strongly suggest you stop editorializing and start reporting. You would at least have a fighting chance to survive if you do.
““I’d like to stand for all of you, for all of you who have real content, for all of you who’ve decided in a really crazy, changing world that your point of view, your editorials, your writings, your articles are critically important,” Kasich said.”
Unfortunately, John 90% of them want to feel it is “critically important” to selectively report the news and write “points of view” that are intended to manipulate the electorate in a leftward way. But I guess that a Soros funded POS posing as a conservative doesn’t get that.
Kasich - another Soros stooge.
Q for Kasich: Has Ohio caught the Pike County mass murderers yet, Gov...?
(crickets)
Kasich to buggy whip makers - We hope you survive.
Yes he is and this cannot be mentioned often enough.
And very few people even read the paper anymore. The average person watches early AM news, checks weather and road conditions, then is off to work. Many only buy a Sunday paper for the sales. Newspapers are not very important these days to most people.
Kaysuck is with the Ministry of Propaganda’s agenda as dictated by George Soros.
Hard to believe that we have THESE TYPES in our party...but yes, we still do.
as a former newsprint sales man, I can tell you newspapers are a dying industry.
“freedom of the press” in the first amendment applies to all of us. In those days if you wanted to blog you had to use a printing press. It was expensive for common folk so sadly news paper companies naturally had a louder voice. These days the freedom of the press is far greater. Bye bye news papers. Hello freedom of the press.
I see the equivalent in some community websites.
Very hard to make a buck that way. Maybe some inventive person will find a way.
Who is this Kasich fellow?
In the early republic, it did not take a great deal of capital to start a newspaper. There were lots of them, and significant freedom of the press.
Printers of papers were partisan, everyone knew it and took it into account. It lasted about a hundred years.
As it grew more and more expensive to enter the market, and as the news industry centralized, we ended up with the Mediacracy. It lasted about a hundred years.
Now we are moving back to media that is easy to enter, and a partisan media. It is a better place. I have no idea how long it will last.
Calling Kasich a “2016 presidential contender” is a freaking joke. That’s like calling the Cleveland Browns, Super Bowl contenders. It may be factually correct, but realistically it is a joke
Kasich takes money form soros. That’s really all you need to know.
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