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Here We Go: Connecticut Democrat Calls for Newpaper Bailout
JammieWearingFool — ... , although Reuters fails to note that fact while agonizing through 26 paragraphs. How better an illustration of media bias can we get than a liberal media story about a Democrat calling for a government bailout of a newspaper in his district and not have them note he's a Democrat? Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty . But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press. Nicastro represents Connecticut's 79th assembly district, which includes Bristol, a city of about ...

The Pay-To-Play Press
Six Meat Buffet — Top O’ The Drudge. All youse gotta do is bailout the Dinosaur Media and ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.  We goes from watchdogs ta lapdogs: “The whole idea of the First Amendment and separating media and giving them freedom of control from the government is sacrosanct,” said Digby Solomon, publisher of Tribune Co’s Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. Former Miami Herald Editor Tom Fiedler said that a democracy has an obligation to help preserve a free press. ...

NATIONALIZING THE PRESS? A call for a government newspaper bailout. Yeah, what could possibly go w…
Instapundit — NATIONALIZING THE PRESS? A call for a government newspaper bailout. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?

Oh, Yeah: Bailouts for Newspapers!
Ace of Spades HQ — Oh, Yeah: Bailouts for Newspapers! Why not? They're bustin' their ass for Obama; shouldn't Obama put them on the payroll? Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press. Nicastro represents Connecticut's 79th assembly district, which includes Bristol, a city of about 61,000 people outside Hartford, the state capital. Its paper, The Bristol Press, may fold within days, along with The Herald in nearby New Britain. That is ...

A few Thurs. morning links
Maggie's Farm — ... A review of a new bio of Arthur Miller. A quote: One good test of a literary biography is whether it sends one back to the author. I finished this one relieved that I never had to hear anything more about Arthur Miller. CT newspapers want government $. We knew this would come up. Related, via Insty: How can newspapers cover somebody they love? Ireland's enviro minister: Climate change is a con Thomas Frank on the un-wisdom of markets. WSJ. Methinks he does not understand the history of bubbles in ...

Newspaper bailouts coming to Connecticut?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... about the possibility of government bailouts for failing newspapers, and in Connecticut it appears the notion has gained steam .  Unfortunately, some state lawmakers want to transfer capital from taxpayers to failing private enterprises, which we’ve seen on a national level for the last two months.  Their rationalizations make clear that the lawmakers have no concept of media, democracy, or common sense (via ...

Let Them Die
California Conservative — ... When I read the opening of this article, my first reaction was “Let them die.” Here’s what I’m referring to: ...

Buggy whips [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom — What’s the response to newspapers no one will read? Find a new business model? Improve writing to attract subscribers? Or just demand a bailout . And anyone slow on the realization that newspapers are solely responsible for their own problems need only to read ...

2009: The Year of the Newspaper Bailout?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... A Wednesday "analysis" piece by Robert MacMillan of Reuters reports that the state agency is indeed "offering tax breaks, training funds, financing opportunities and other incentives for publishers, but not cash." ...

Bailouts for Newspapers?
PoliGazette — ... It had to come eventually, I suppose, but you would think that some would understand the implications.  Apparently not, because one legislator from my own backyard is trying to get a hometown paper a bailout. ...

links for 2009-01-02
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama Rod_Blagojevich roland_burris) Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his ...

Save Us …
Jules Crittenden — ... From those who would save us from ourselves! Connecticut lawmaker wants to bail out failing newspapers. Reuters :  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press. Nicastro represents Connecticut’s 79th assembly district, which includes Bristol, a city of about 61,000 people outside Hartford, the state capital. Its paper, The Bristol Press, may fold within days, along with The Herald in nearby New ...

James Pinkerton: Das Bailout: A Conversation With Karl Marx
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Marx paused to reflect: "There's still way too much capitalist freedom of communication for my taste, but when it comes to transport, well that's a different story--your auto companies are begging to be owned by the state. And of course, now the media, which once prided itself on its independence from state power, is bellying up to the bailout bar, as you might say it. I see in Reuters--there's a name I remember from my days in Victorian London--that there are now plans afoot to have the government buy up the media, too. More collective ownership of the means of production, ...