No, licensing journalists isn’t the answer (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

GigaOm ^ | September 7, 2011 | Mathew Ingram

[longtermmemmory]

IOW ATLAS SHRUGGED

The “anti dog eat dog rule”

upstarts are not allowed if they damage existing established companies AND they have to share their resources with the established companies.

(crony capitalism. I can’t believe part 1 did not make it at the box office)

[UCANSEE2]

If they get away with that, how soon will they want to be the ones to decide what is a “real” church and start licensing religions?

Nov. 6, 2012

[MrEdd]

No, licensing journalists isn’t the answer

How's about we have them making license plates?

[Lancey Howard]

The "journalism community" just cannot come to terms with the fact they don't control information flow anymore.

The gnashing of teeth has been going on for at least 15 years, and over the past 10 years it has become downright nasty, with the dinosaur newsrooms constantly trying to affirm their relevance by getting socialists and goofball leftists elected against the will of most decent Americans.

They were surprised to see their Al Gore lose, but they were thoroughly flummoxed when Kerry lost despite pulling out all the stops. It was around that point they decided to stop even pretending to be "objective".

Their success with getting Ubama elected was too easy after 8 years of relentlessly beating up Bush, and so now they are wondering how on earth they are going to get Ubama reelected. I'm sure the Journ-O-listers are putting their heads together even as we post.

[Rocky]

Over and over again, the writer commits the unpardonable sin of putting “objective” and “journalism” in the same sentence.

[Interesting Times]

The culture minister in the Canadian province of Quebec recently discussed creating a new law that would legislate who could be a “professional journalist” as opposed to what the minister called “amateur bloggers.” While the criteria for admission to the professional category weren’t clearly described, the government said it wanted to identify those journalists who were dedicated to “serving the public interest,” and anyone with the professional rank would enjoy certain privileges such as “better access to government sources.”

We can refer to the "professional rank" as the "Soviet" reporters.