Poll: No Support For FTC Proposals To Help News Organizations (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

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[abb]

There’s basically zero popular support for several already unlikely initiatives the FTC is looking into in order to support the “reinvention of journalism.” Rasmussen Reports polled 1,000 people on whether they would support proposals—like a tax on consumer electronics to help news organizations or a taxpayer-funded program to support young journalists through AmeriCorps—and the answer was a decisive no. A monthly tax on cell phone bills? 90 percent no! A tax on consumer electronic devices? 84 percent no! The young reporter program? 70 percent no! A White House commission to help save journalism jobs? 55 percent no! (Via MediaPost)

Most respondents seemed to think that news organizations would be fine without government help, with 58 percent saying they were “confident that online and other news sources will make up the difference if many newspapers go out business.”

Other proposals in the FTC report include additional IP rights to support claims against aggregators, antitrust exemptions so that new organizations can jointly put up paywalls and a national fund for local news. Rasmussen didn’t ask about those. The proposals will be talked about at a roundtable discussion at the National Press Club next week.

[abb]

The latest on the "government news" push.

[abb]

ping

[historyrepeatz]

No support? That means it’ll happen.

[gwilhelm56]

Seeing that the Current “Old School” Media cannot do their jobs PROPERLY, they deserve only one thing .. a small spot in the HISTORY BOOKS!

[TigerClaws]

Who needs popular support?

Executive order and it’s done. Welcome to Pravda.

[MrEdd]

The old Media is dying because it’s replacement already exists, and it cant compete.

Look at Free Republic today. The bulk of posted articles come from sites that never were televised or printed on paper.

Now go back just two years and look.

Free Republic is a snapshot of the general public in this regard.

[Luke21]

They will do it. They prop up everything else.

[Drango]

Other proposals in the FTC report include additional IP rights to support claims against aggregators, antitrust exemptions so that new organizations can jointly put up paywalls and a national fund for local news. Rasmussen didn’t ask about those. The proposals will be talked about at a roundtable discussion at the National Press Club next week.

Clueless buggy whip manufactures demanding they be able to suck at the government teat.

[max americana]

Help “news” organizations or Obama ass-kisser propaganda organizations like Al reuters and AP?

[abb]

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[abb]

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[FlingWingFlyer]

The so-called “journalism” schools need to stop pumping out communist propagandists and start graduating only honest journalists. I know that would be a tough thing for them to do but if the “media” wants to survive, it is what they have to do.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good collection of references.

[Jim Scott]

Americans are figuring out that the so-called 'mainstream media' lies to them, almost non-stop. The left-wing bias has become obvious and the lack of objectivity is off-putting to most, even if you're not a conservative. The internet, cable TV and constantly advancing technology have made the daily newspaper, broadcast network evening news shows and news magazines passé.

the concept of American's tax money being given to failing, left-wing media outlets - no matter the clever name for it - is clearly and rightly anathema to a majority of Americans. The idea is absurd and I think that most Americans realize that a 'media' subsidized by government is simply a government propaganda tool.

O.K.,they're all that, now, but we don't have to pay for their biased stories and left-wing editorials.

[abb]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What is it Rush calls the LSM? The Government approved media?

[Recovering_Democrat]

So? America didn’t support HUSSEINCARE either, but that jerkwad from Kenya/Hawaii/Indonesia/Kansas/Illinois and his fruitcake friend from Michigan...what was her name...Beatrice Stupak? They didn’t give a damn.

Now we have to fight Husseincare in the courts.

So the lack of support in a poll means DICK to the Communists in the White House.

[abb]

State Run Media

[uncbob]

Americans are figuring out that the so-called 'mainstream media' lies to them, almost non-stop. The left-wing bias has become obvious and the lack of objectivity is off-putting to most,

Yeah that is why Obama wasn't elected in 2008

[gwilhelm56]

And LSM is LAME Stream Media..