Posted on 12/08/2008 4:40:00 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Mark Pinsky, writing for the New Republic, has an idea of what to do with all the journalists currently being laid off by the dying newspapers around the country: put them on the public payroll by hiring them for a resurrected Federal Writers Project. This was the New Deal project which provided funding for works which were primarily of a leftwing nature. And any current version of this government program is likely to have the same political ideology as its predecessor. Pinksy explains his dream of subsidizing unemployed journalists (emphasis mine):
Barack Obama sounds like he wants to reach back to the New Deal's Works Progress Administration to jump start the economy with an economic stimulus proposal featuring infrastructure repair. If so, it may be time for the man who would be FDR to take a look at another successful--but largely forgotten--jobs program from the Depression era: the Federal Writers Project.
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PING!
Just the same MSM with a different entity signing the paychecks.
Memo to Mark: if your material doesn’t change but your paymaster does that’s just another bailout.
Sorry no sale.
How about calling it Bailout for Failed Journalists??
ALL media can wither on the vine... NO BAIL OUT FOR GOEBBELS!
LLS
And all over the country, universities are still cranking out Journalism graduates, the equivalent of buggy-whip makers. Universities should be sued for malpractice when they take money from ignorant students who are preparing for a dying profession.
” Universities should be sued for malpractice when they take money from ignorant students who are preparing for a dying profession.”
....absolutely right!....Woodward&Bernstein started the golden age of so called “investigative reporting”....every college enlarged their J-School....those fiefdoms die hard....they’ll hang on until no students matriculate.
“This time, the FWP could begin by documenting the ground-level impact of the Great Recession;....”
....yep and they will have a photo journalism team to do Rust Belt photos instead of Dust Bowl ones....Hitler saw those and read the Grapes of Wrath too....he figured America was so demoraslized we would be no problem for him...why give the Chinese similar impressions?
Sorry, no sale.
I propose instead a Faith-based initiative: let all those bozos go ring the bells for the Salvation Army, learn a little humility in the process, maybe, and meet the worthy Americans who actually do something for others.
It seems I recently read that a journalist or reporter in a mid-size town wanted to start an association that would encourage journalists to tell the truth, to be conservative, to tell actual details of the story, to present without bias in print. How refreshing that would be.
Oops, my bad. The illegals these 'journalists' all love and support so much already have those jobs.
Hey, I've got it.. they can go work for Landscaping Companies! Wait.... wrong again, no they can't. Illegals have those too.
Guess they'll just have to stick their collective heads in the oven.
Oliver Stone like fantasies about how Bush was much worse than anyone even realized. "Analytic" works that explore why Bush wasn't assassinated, how much better America would have been if he had been assassinated, and how his assassin could have gotten off if he'd claimed to be "just a patriot doing his job". And lengthy, turgid volumes of prose about how BHO really is the Messiah, chronicling his every turn of the wrist and pause of speech as a new revelation to Mankind.
Just like they do now.
He was tracked down by the local politicians, and hung without a trial.
I saw this coming a mile away. No way the Dems would let there good friends of MSM be harmed by there own bais and lack of ability (espically when that was what got the Dems in power in the first place).
/bashes head
Wow! This is a shocker!
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