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How the Obama administration can save newspapers (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
Los Angeles Times ^
| May 30, 2009
| Tim Rutten
Posted on 05/30/2009 2:08:41 AM PDT by abb
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"Well, when the president the newspaper industry does it that means that it is not illegal."
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:08:41 AM PDT
by
abb
To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Birch T. Barlow; ..
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:09:15 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
I love how these newspaper folks, who always have been and always should be against any kind of connection to the government, are suddenly all for the government stepping in and helping out now that they can’t survive in a competitive market. It never occurs to them that maybe the reason they are bleeding readership is because they’re doing something wrong.
To: abb
Newspapers kills trees. Tress absorb CO2. This makes newspapers a serous threat to life on the planet. Why should we save something we know for a fact from reading them causes the greatest threat to our existence.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:12:20 AM PDT
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: abb
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:15:07 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
...and democracy itself, which depends on a vigorously free and independent press -- will be the ultimate losers...
As if we can't survive without a bunch of self-important blowhards telling us what's 'going on'.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:17:18 AM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(0bama - A waste is a terrible thing to mind)
To: abb
"If the president the newspaper cartel, for example, approves something because of the national security they're so "important to the functioning of a vital democracy", or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude they're losing money hand over fist, then the president's the newspaper cartel's decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law." Nixon/Frost interview, May 19, 1977
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:22:21 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: Always Right
because the message is more important.
Remember it is a religion.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:25:10 AM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: ComputerGuy
Substitute “the oil industry” for “newspapers” in that article and tell me what the lead story would be on the evening news broadcasts.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:25:10 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:27:45 AM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(0bama - A waste is a terrible thing to mind)
To: abb
The entire US Newspaper industry is the propaganda arm of the
Democratic Socialist/Obamunist Party.
Obama will bail them out. He needs them.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:33:00 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: abb
No good Socialist can do without his propaganda department. The MSM did a wonderful job for Obama. He cannot let them down.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:35:59 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: abb
The newspaper industry is going to learn a very hard lesson: When you build someone up to the level of savior, he will be the first to believe it himself, and will thus think he doesn’t need you anymore.
To: abb
If the drive by media was half as smart as they think they are, they would have been the creators of web based services like craig’s list, ebay, etc.
But that would have gone against their “progressive” agenda.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:41:00 AM PDT
by
EasySt
( Free Republic Folders - A tribute to Ronald Reagan)
To: Bon mots
The entire US Newspaper industry is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Socialist/Obamunist Party. I submit it's the other way around. The Democrat/Socialist/Obamunist party is the political arm of the newspaper industry.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:51:04 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
Pre-internet, what was the actual cost for a typical want ad, and how much was it marked up?
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:55:46 AM PDT
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar.)
To: abb
Thanks ABB for keepin’ tabs on our very own Pravda...interesting thought that the ‘Democrat/Socialist/Obamunist party is the political arm of the newspaper industry’.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:59:01 AM PDT
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
To: Bon mots
Obama will bail them out. He needs them. Here's the plan - The newspapers will start printing two "ObamaBucks" in every copy. These will be legal currency. So you pay $1 for a newspaper, and get $2 in Obamabucks, redeemable everywhere. Newspapers fly off the stands.
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posted on
05/30/2009 3:36:34 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED. Barack OBORTION is a close second.)
To: Always Right
Newspapers kills trees. Tress absorb CO2. This makes newspapers a serous threat to life on the planet. Why should we save something we know for a fact from reading them causes the greatest threat to our existence.I know you are being sarcastic but the whole article was about on-line newspapers...
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posted on
05/30/2009 4:03:03 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: abb
"I submit it's the other way around. The Democrat/Socialist/Obamunist party is the political arm of the newspaper industry." Probably so.
But they're going to have to force people to buy the crap.
There's a huge majority of Americans who don't read as it is, the typical zerO supporter for example?
They ain't gonna like it.
Then we'll all hear they got rights! ;^)
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posted on
05/30/2009 4:03:17 AM PDT
by
Landru
(Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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