Want a preview? Pick up your kid’s public school history book sometime and read just a few pages. You’ll be asking yourself, Did we lose a war?

It does not mean that the content will be at the behest of the government. It only means that the papers will be saved.

sethstorm on January 2, 2009 at 4:08 AM

So, if someone is giving you money on a regular basis, you don’t treat them any differently? Human nature and the fundamental principles of economics indicate otherwise. Here’s an easy example. How will those newspapers react to the CT legislature bailing out OTHER industries, after they’re being paid by the CT government? Are the chances good that reporters, who owe their continued employment to the government, will criticize the government for spending taxpayer’s money in this way?

Or, how deep will an investigative reporter dig when an issue comes up about Nicastro, or one of the bill’s supporters? “Let’s see, if I write this story, I can expose corruption and waste. But this guy saved my job….”

All of this “bailout” talk is going to go the same way as the ridiculous amnesty debates, with the proponents denying the correct word be used to describe the situation and trying to dance away with some idiotic euphemisms that serve to hide the truth.

progressoverpeace

“He who controls the language, controls the debate.” ~ Unknown

ericdondero on January 2, 2009 at 6:43 AM

Lady Logician said the same thing. She got a comment from McMillan that it wasn’t a “bailout”. Well, Nicastro might not have been talking about a bailout but McCmillan certainly was:

Its paper, The Bristol Press, may fold within days, along with The Herald in nearby New Britain.

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Nicastro and fellow legislators want the papers to survive, and petitioned the state government to do something about it.

To go from “may fold within days” to the “state government do[ing] something about it” is a bailout in anyone’s book – except for McCmillan, evidently. Maybe McMillan needs someone to buy him a dictionary so that he can learn what a “bailout” is. And maybe Reuters ought to try and find some writers who understand English.

All of this “bailout” talk is going to go the same way as the ridiculous amnesty debates, with the proponents denying the correct word be used to describe the situation and trying to dance away with some idiotic euphemisms that serve to hide the truth.

I wonder if Ed Morrissey got a similar note from this guy?

I wrote a similar story at Libertarian Republican blog early yesterday:

Democrat Rep. Frank Nicastro wants bail-outs for Connecticut Newspapers: How will legislators be able to resist?

Well, the reporter for Reuters, Robert MacMillan wrote to me and said that I had misrepresented the story, and “bailout” is not what Nicastro was saying.

I say, it most certainly is. Any government assistance constitutes a “bailout” most certainly subsidized “training, and financing opportunities,” as is explicitly noted in the piece.

What say You?

Well, the same thing is happening with Democrats and their mouthpiece, the MSM. This symbiotic relationship is destroying the MSM and Democrats have no choice but to prop them up with tax dollars.

Besides the fact that people do not subscribe to news they consider bias and solely a leftard mouthpiece, people are just not relying on print media for their news.
Blake on January 1, 2009 at 11:52 AM

Even leftists aren’t buying the news any longer. The leftist in my family is aware of the propaganda the MSM passes off as news. He said to me recently “one thing I know, I don’t believe anything I read in the paper any longer.” The Obama victory cost the MSM their only valuable commodity; trust. They won the battle, but it cost them the war.

Update: Gary Gross has similar thoughts in his post, “Let Them Die”.

One doesn’t have to let them die; it suffices to let them fail. If the failure of some newspapers will lead to someone’s dying, we can discuss whether to let him die. Until then, using the language of death just makes the failure of the newspapers seem more important and more pitiful than it really is.

This is something that has been discussed — and so far is not happening — in one state, a state with more loons per square mile than any other states save California and Massachusetts.

You forgot Texas and Alaska.

It does not mean that the content will be at the behest of the government. It only means that the papers will be saved.

So, how are we bloggers goinng to get our HOT AIR press credentials so we can fill the void.

Where do I file my expense reports? That’s where the big bucks get spent (and I’m not talking fraud, just the normal baloney of traveling, hotels, and such).

Also, we need advertising to increase our public exposure – billboards, sides of busses, radio ads, that sort of thing.

We need to raise some serious cash. ON OUR OWN.

I’m waiting.