Posted on 06/09/2011 7:40:51 AM PDT by SumProVita
"...Christie said. “It also meets our goal of making sure government is out of the broadcasting business. In my view that should have ended with the Soviet Union. It’s ending here in New Jersey a little later than the fall of the wall in Berlin, but we’re getting there."
(Excerpt) Read more at verumserum.com ...
Wow! What a concept! Love it.
I think what happened was that public broadcasting interests in NY and PA picked up the stations.
New York’s WNYC and Philly’s WHYY will split up the nine NJN FM stations
>>Philadelphia-based radio/TV pubcaster WHYY will take the other five licenses, located in Southern New Jersey and near Philadelphia. Those are WNJS, Berlin (88.1), WNJB, Bridgeton (89.3), WNJN, Atlantic City (89.7), WNJZ, Cape May (90.3) and WNJM, Manahawkin (89.9). The AP says WHYY is committing $1.5 million in cash and in-kind contributions.
Bravo...... He is following my advice.
bert has pontificated for at least ten years that NPR/PBS are not the problem. The States own most if not all of the public stations and the governors can end the propaganda by merely taking over the operation and firing all the staff. It is simple as ordering...... “cease broadcasting NPR feeds on our state public stations.”
It as easy as that.
Good, sensible move by Governor Christie. May the feds soon follow his lead and dump funding for NPR/PBS.
...not sure but isn’t or wasn’t WNYC owned by the city of New York?
Yeah, but he’s a fat, obnoxious RINO /s
Chris Christie IS a RINO.
Even a broken clock......etc.
He’s a fiscal conservative - to a degree, and a social lib.
The GOP establishment is looking to him as a successor to Romney if Romney falters. They DON’T want a conservative to run against Obama.
Christie:
1) Is on record stting that illegal aliens are NOT breaking a Federal Law by being here
2) Waited TWO YEARS to pull New Jersey out of REGGIE
3) Said the Mosque at Ground Zero is a “local affair”.
4) Appointed a Muslim Immigration Attorney with no judicial experience to the Superior Court of Passaic County, New Jersey
5) Appointed an anti-gun DEMOCRAT as the State Attorney General
6) Approved of the firing of a New Jersey Transit Worker who burned a Koran ON HIS OWN TIME to protest the Mosque at ground zero, saying the burning was a “disgusting” act.
7) REFUSES to join in on the State Suit against Obamacare
8) Campaigned for Castel in Delaware
9) Was the ONLY Governor to attend a dinner in Washington with the “President” of Communist China at Obama’s request.
In New Jersey, Christie is the BEST we can hope for.
In AMERICA there are a LOT MORE BETTER CHOICES for President.
“PRIVATIZES”? Read the fine print.
The first clue that you don’t understand what you’re writing about was quoted by you, yourself. Read: “this new partnership”.
Now, if the government were selling the assets, there’d be no basis to call it a “new partnership”, just like when you buy a used car or house you don’t form a partnership with the seller. Of course, the seller might place conditions on the sale, but that’s not a partnership. And if the government isn’t selling the assets and letting the new owners manage them as they see fit to do so, then why call it “privatizes”?
Here’s another clue, this time from the third paragraph of the article: “New Jersey will still hold the broadcasting licenses and will have an option after five years TO RENEW THE DEAL.”
“To renew the deal”?? If it were a privatization, the government would no longer have any such right. After all, the public broadcaster, so called, would be private, see?
There is yet another clue that Christie is a run-of-the-mill b.s. artist. At about 0:43 he said that “…and can be perceived as truly independent from state government.” He was referring to changes that accommodate the “need to have robust New Jersey public broadcasting”.
So now Christie is fixing and rigging commerce. The caricature would be rounded out still further if he claimed to be advancing the Reagan revolution.
Now, it should take no imagination to suspect that the managers will run their public-private business less carefully than they could, as if they could one day go to government for a bailout. So, for a time, they will be inclined to pay themselves higher salaries, among other perks, than the economic situation would warrant if they were “truly independent”. In effect, profits will be recorded not on the bottom line but as operating expenses, where the profits will be difficult to recognize as such on account of being commingled with expenses legitimately recorded there. Maybe they’ll spread the profits around a little by bidding up the wages of production talent, too. But will competitors recognize the scam and so petition government to redress the grievance of not having similar privileges, too, like the public-private broadcaster?
And what if the public-private broadcaster gets into trouble? Why shouldn’t management expect a bailout? Partners help each other, and the government is committed both to keeping the racket in operation and its strings attached to the public-private broadcasting business.
So, “Perfect”? Well, no. Instead, your headline, “PRIVATIZES” is nonsense, and it stands to reason that you let a little bigotry blind you. (I’m being very charitable, here, I think.) But that would be nothing new for a collectivist to do, least of all for a rightleaning one.
Maybe the leftists will cry, “fascist”. The irony, of course, would be that the producers’ goods in question will still have strings attached to government, as Christie betrayed in spite of his best efforts to put a positive spin on his little scam, which “can” not “be perceived as truly independent from state government”, for to perceive is to apprehend or discern with the mind something as it is, not as others would like you to pretend that it is.
And since he's not running, your entire rant is totally irrelevant.
Don’t be fooled by actual results!
Laszlo, see my comments on this RINO.
He is a Julie-Annie Clone.
Excellent. The state has no business being in broadcasting. Now for the feds to do the same.
Excellent. The state has no business being in broadcasting. Now for the feds to do the same.
Excellent. The state has no business being in broadcasting. Now for the feds to do the same.
Excellent. The state has no business being in broadcasting. Now for the feds to do the same.
Excellent. The state has no business being in broadcasting. Now for the feds to do the same.
Excellent. The state has no business being in broadcasting. Now for the feds to do the same.
I was wondering what that anguished, high pitched, shrieking sound was. It’s not often you can hear New Jersey liberals in the southwest.
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