Leave a Comment

PJ O’Rourke: a newspaper bailout?
Rathergate.com — In the comments to the last post, Ricochet linked to an essay by P.J. O’Routke: Print paupers could use bailout . The Government is bailing out Wall Street for being evil and the car companies for being stupid. But print journalism brings you Paul Krugman and Anna Quindlen. Also, in 1898 Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal started the Spanish-American War. All of the Lehman Brothers put together couldn’t cause as much evil stupidity as that. Check it out.

Our Sudoku Reserves
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — By Patrick Appel P.J. O'Rourke asks for a journalism bailout: ...rescuing print journalism is a twofer. Not only will America's principal source of Sudoku puzzles and Doonesbury be preserved but so will an endangered species: the hard-bitten, cynical, heavy-drinking newshound with a press card in his hatband, a cigarette stub dangling from his lip, and free ringside prize-fight tickets tucked into his vest pocket. These guys don't reproduce in captivity. And there are hardly any of them left in the wild. I checked the bar. ...

Microblog 2008-12-13
Overlawyered — ... h/t @amyfeldman] “Remember, America, you can’t wrap a fish in satellite radio” — P.J. O’Rourke wants bailout for print [The Australian] ...

Can a Bailout for Print Journalism be Far Behind?
The New Editor — P. J. O'Rourke: The print journalism industry is taking a beating, circling the drain, running on fumes. Especially running on fumes. You could smell Frank Rich all the way to Nome when Sarah Palin was nominated. Not that print journalism actually emits much in the way of greenhouse gases. We have an itty-bitty carbon footprint. We're earth-friendly. The press run of an average big-city daily newspaper can be made from one tree. Compare that to the global warming hot air produced by talk radio, cable television and Andrew Sullivan. ... Some taxpayers ...