Posted on 09/21/2009 8:10:07 AM PDT by mlizzy
Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to democracy, The Hill reports.
"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.
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Sorry state of the news industry.I wonder what caused that./sarc
I had to see if this was from the Onion. Unfortunately, it is not.
What we need is some actual reporting of facts. We have less need of people "telling stories" and are cool with all sorts of analysis labeled as such.
And government’s Constitutional authority to propagandize the population comes exactly from where?
All your blog are belong to us!
It reminds me of this video.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_should_the_government
I guess he wants to make it official that the media really is state run, just like Rush says.
Exactly what will happen with government control of the economy.
We’d still be riding in horse drawn carriages.
He can’t fathom that maybe newspapers need to migrate to the Internet/blog format.
It’s none of his damn business, and it’s stealing. Most of the papers are his liberal cronies so your money is going to bail them out. How much free speech can you expect from a government owned newspaper?
If papers weren’t written with a preordained agenda put forth by a liberal editorial board. And maybe were say, honest. You know, put forth a reasonable product, they could hack it.
The more tightly you grip, the more patriots slip through your fingers, you pompous, lying, a-hole....
Satire?
Who are they kidding? As if the newspapers ever do “serious fact checking”.
Just look at their faulure to vet the candidates in 2008.
Last Spring I posted about how I thought Obambi would bail out newspapers if he got into office.
They are every bit as crucial to liberal propaganda as Tass was to the Soviets. The Kenyan understands that and will do everything in his power to keep his Ministry of Disinformation viable.
that could be a good thing...
Actually, the Bloggers are the ones who are putting things into perspective, who are digging for the facts, who are reporting more than just what the ratings and the Obama Administration dictate.
Even on Twitter...last week #acorn was a trending topics for several days, right up there with #kanyewest and helped to keep the story alive. YouTube videos of Town Hall Meetings are showing the hypocrisy of the Ostrich Media.
They have turned in their journalism badges and have become entertainment broadcasts.
Cordially,
Does he know that “We the People” have the right of free speech??
ZERO is meddling again.........why doesn’t he try working instead of yakking away at controlling everything and everyone who can’t and won’t spout his communist way of life??? He is rarely in the WH.
So now Obama is an autrhority on how great newspapers are and how horrible blogs are.
Think America, he is standing in the way of the greatest technological information revolution since the printing press! This is what Socialism is all about.
“All your blog are belong to us!”
LOL..I was going to post the same thing..ROTFLOL!
The Real World: "...if the direction of the CMM (Chris Matthews Media) is all sycophancy, all love-fests, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to report on stories that concern the demise of the American dream due to the corrosive corruptive nature of Obama & the Democrats, that what you will end up getting is people marching & shouting at Congress across the void but not a lot of listening,"
This is not about giving them money, Barry.
It’s about their lack of journalism which is dooming them and no amount of bailing them out will ever, ever change their degenerating status. Extinction is a natural cycle of life on Earth. As such, the “old” media is doomed to inevitable extinction and the “new” media will replace it, again, no matter the amount of money you wish to prolong their inevitable extinction.
I didn't know you were a Russian plant here at FR.
Do you know there is no truth in the news and no news in the truth?
“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all MSM, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context,..”
There, fixed it for accuracy.
Sometimes we check people like Dan Blather...but just for typos....
Just look at their faulure to vet the candidates in 2008.
And the 44 (and counting) czars in 2009.
Cordially,
If America will be Communist, we should embrace the state-run newspaper! Then only the GOVERNMENTAL TRUTH will be out there! It is time for us carefully decide what ‘truth’ is.
I daresay more fact-checking goes on at Powerline than at many so-called ‘newspapers’ in this country.
BS...
Obama is a KosKid.
Just a warm feeling running down your leg.
Can't have that kind of journalism...
and who didn’t know that this was coming?????
How about their razzle-dazzle coverage of the ACORN scandal ?
Imagine a republican wanting to spend taxpayer money to combat all those pesky opinions he can’t control??
And you know the next step is top control the blogs, to make sure they tell the “truth”.
Coupled with his latest national insecurity statements, Obama’s full fledged leftism is becoming more frightening. We are in serious trouble.
Translation was posted to this thread, curiously right below your comment. ;)
“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” he said.
Here’s a translation of what the President said:
If the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, CBS, NBC, CNN, and ABC all go out of business, what source will I have to spout propaganda from?
Check out Glenn Beck
The translation for what I wrote is: "If America is to be Communist, let's embrace state-run newspapers! Then only GOVERNMENTAL TRUTH will be get out there! It is time for us carefully decide what 'truth' is."
But I put it in a language Obama would understand.
“State run media” will no longer be said half in jest.
Pravda USA, here we come...
My God, this Ubama is one scary em-effer.
Since most people already have access to the interwebs, then we must pass immediately legislation requiring all Americans to purchase Newspapers! Most Americans are facing a news crisis, therefore we must act now. If you already read a newspaper and you are happy with it, my plan will ensure that you are allowed to keep reading that newspaper.
Yeesh, NOW I can understand it!
“He said he would be happy to look a bills that could give tax newspapers tax-breaks if they were to restructure as 50 (c) (3) educational corporations.”
Did he really say this stuff? Doesn’t the federal government have a huge amount of control when it funds educational institutions? And giving a newspaper the mantle of being a bona fide “educator” is criminal.
Note that Obama didn’t recognize television as a news source. He is even skipping over that part of the information age. Maybe he also never noticed all the magazines?
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