EDITORIAL: FTC floats Drudge tax

washington times ^ | 6/4/10 | editor

[Nachum]

Journalism can reinvent itself without government 'help'

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking ways to "reinvent" journalism, and that's a cause for concern. According to a May 28 draft proposal, the agency thinks government should be at the center of a media overhaul. The bureaucracy sees it as a problem that the Internet has introduced a wealth of information options to consumers, forcing media companies to adapt and experiment to meet changing market needs. FTC's policy staff fears this new reality.

"There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for commercial journalism," the report states. With no faith that the market will work things out for the better, government thinks it must come to the rescue.

[Nachum]

These people really are trying to create a civil war. They're insane.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Oh, and this just might affect sites like Free Republic and Nachumlist too...

[dalebert]

ya regulations...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[diamond6]

They should only tax Democratic Underground, since those people love taxes so much...LOL!!

[gitmo]

These people fear Liberty above everything else.

[BenLurkin]

The report also discusses the possibility of offering tax exemptions to news organizations, establishing an AmeriCorps for reporters and creating a national fund for local news organizations.

Where do these evil little bureaucratic trolls come from? How can they be sent back there?

[Nachum]

These people fear Liberty above everything else.

They can't sleep at night, because somebody, somewhere is having a good time...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for (LIBERAL/SOCIALIST) commercial journalism."

[ColdOne]

These people really are trying to create a civil war. They're insane. Insane for sure..

[gaijin]

“Oh we only spew bilge cuz that’s what the MARKET wants..!”

Oh sure, they love the free-market of ideas, huh....? sure they do, right up to the point where the market doesn’t want THEM.

This whole think is a NOMENKLATURA system.

[tiki]

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

I don’t think there would be freedom of the press because you know they’d be working for the government and not the taxpayers.

[arthurus]

GOVERNMENT TO BAIL OUT BUGGY WHIP INDUSTRY!

Automobile production to be strictly limited in order to save jobs.

[Publius]

Something quite similar to that occurs in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. It's called Directive 10-289.

[Freedom56v2]

Constitution, schmonstitution?! Who needs it?!/sarc

“But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.” Candidate Obama, 2001 interview

I am afraid they care not one iota about the constitutionality of anything they do :(

[BloodnGuts]

Where is the Supreme Court?

Freedom of the Press?

[Jack Hydrazine]

“They should only tax Democratic Underground, since those people love taxes so much...LOL!!”

I have the same thought for quite a while. Those who vote in higher takes should be the ones to only pay them. And those who vote them in can be the only ones who benefit from them. I wonder if there is a workable solution in this day and age? I wonder how Dem-bulbs would react to the idea?

[JRandomFreeper]

I've been told by old-time freepers that the commerce clause covers all kinds of federal government over-reach. Including what we eat.

Apparently, there's nothing the fedgov can't do.

/johnny

[Oceander]

This is nothing more than a last-ditch effort by the parasitic worms in places like the NYT to permanently sew their mouths to the federal teat, so they can live off of the hard work of others, without having to bear any of the costs of that hard work.

[doc1019]

Where is the Supreme Court?

Waiting for someone with standing to bring it to them?