Thanks heaps for this!… if anyone else has anything, it would be much appreciated. Great website HOT Pianoforte Links http://www.en.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!…

Maybe Obama can appoint someone to be Director of Information – oh, he already has – it is Cass Sunstein! Cool, since he understands that Americans are too stupid to make good decisions for themselves and how a little informational “nudging” can fix that right up!

Cass could hold a daily telephone roundtable with other guiding lights of the administration (Chu, Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel, Browner, et al)and get updates on areas where the people are unable or unwilling to effectively advance the administration’s agenda.

Then like the current daily White House roundtable call with “journalists and publishers”, Sunstein can provide daily topics to be covered in the media. Anything that is published that is not on the list must meet guidelines in tone and tenor, or punishment will be meted out. The NEA can helpfully offer artists to produce reinforcing cartoons, posters, ads, etc.

What the heck, why bother with a bunch of newspapers scattered around the country. In the “efficient” new administration there should be just a single newspaper – so much easier to manage…

Good lord! We are just 8 friggin’ months into this guy’s term! What will this country look like in 2012?

We will be happy to consider financial assistance to newspapers. Executive pay will be based on the ratio of favorable to unfavorable stories about the current administration. The administration will decide which are which.

Our new Czar for the newspaper bailout program is Mr. Goebells here. Any words of guidance for our editors, Franz?

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As much as you guys hate the NYT, the fact is you get a lot of your own content from their reporting. Blogs love to brag about being at the forefront of the “new media”, but until they develop substantial investigative and reporting budgets, there will still be a huge need for the major newspapers. What passes for research around here is little more than a google search.

crr6 on September 21, 2009 at 12:04 PM

While they may “research” and know all the facts of a story, they only report what is advantageous to their liberal agenda. Even if what’s being reported isn’t pleasing to a particular segment of the population, it’s still what’s happening. For example, as a conservative I may be disappointed by the actions of Mark Sanford, but I still want to know about it, I don’t want it dismissed and glossed over. Why do you think Fox News is the #1 cable news channel? It’s not because liberals love Hannity or Beck, it’s because they’re actually reporting the news!

The print media is blatantly biased. That – among other reasons – is why they are dying. They’ve dug their own graves, they need to go.

I’m honestly unsure why being exempt from taxation would put these guys in the pocket of the government. Do regular nonprofits bend to the will of the current administration?

…I need some help on this one.

Trent1289 on September 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM

NPR

This is the first president who has given me the feeling of being talked at rather than talked to. Couldn’t say that about Carter though he was inept, nor Clinton though he was lying through his teeth. At least they cared somewhat about what we thought.

Barack Obama himself sounded quite interested in Senator Ben Cardin’s (D-MD) plan to rescue the newspaper industry from its self-inflicted wounds

Absolutely not! Let the Zombie Media die form its self-inflcted wounds!

If one subverts supposed research by lying, what is it worth?

proconstitution on September 21, 2009 at 2:43 PM

$2 Monday through Saturday and $6 on Sunday…

That is the cover price for the NYT…

There’s a new blog news outfit in San Diego that I believe will be the role model for the future. It’s a bona fide news group. That means, they actually get out and go get the news. You really can’t investigate from a computer screen.

BUT…it’s local news only. They don’t bother with national stories. AND…it’s all on-line.

So far, advertisers are flocking in, so there’s no charge. Moreover, journalists from all over the country are calling to see if they are hiring.

Real journalists like to investigate. The young guys who started this venture are, of course, bright and, well, darn young. They pay good wages to the reporters and say, amazingly enough, they are making plenty of money.

That’s the way of the future, I think.

If one subverts supposed research by lying, what is it worth?

I frequently receive telephone solicitations from the [Newport News Virginia] Daily Press. When they ask why I don’t want to subscribe I tell them it’s because of their far-left editorial leanings. But, they are owned by Tribune Publishing, as in Chicago Tribune, so I expect I’m in no danger of subscribing. At least not voluntarily.

oldleprechaun on September 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM

Tell them you are on the “DO NOT CALL” list and you are going to turn them in… That should stop them for good…

Do you ever read the NYT outside of an attack post on HA?

crr6 on September 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Since you asked me directly: no, I don’t waste my time reading “the grey lady”…

I’ll ignore the “attack post” reference, as I do not feel it is an attack to list the clear BIAS this dowager leader of the Elite Media trowels out on a daily basis as NEWS when it should be loading up the OPINION PAGES and labeling it as such…

I used to subscribe to Newsweek starting in the late 1970s, but cancelled my subscription after they started attacking President Reagan…

Feel free to subscribe to the NYT and support them as desired… Just don’t ask me to support them with one penny of my tax dollars… Your liberal opinion stops at my wallet, and I will fight you hammer and tong should you put your fingers in my pocket…

Think “Gladiator”, and I’m Russell Crowe…

There, I feel better…

At least not voluntarily.

oldleprechaun on September 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM

When will they mandate news subscriptions, like healthcare?
Hmmmm…..

Now, for every Blair exposed, how many more aren’t? And if you start digging up information on what corporations own which newspapers, you’ll find a pattern very close to the one which exists in television.

I stopped trusting “journalists” (including Walter Crapkite) when I was stationed in Viet-nam in ’68. I see no reason to give them money. I frequently receive telephone solicitations from the [Newport News Virginia] Daily Press. When they ask why I don’t want to subscribe I tell them it’s because of their far-left editorial leanings. But, they are owned by Tribune Publishing, as in Chicago Tribune, so I expect I’m in no danger of subscribing. At least not voluntarily.

Chainsaw56 on September 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Poor Thomas Paine would be labelled a hate monger & racist bigot, now.

And has anyone seen the new GM ad where the new CEO is announcing their new refund policy and he states that they ( government motors ) are putting their money where their mouth is. Like everything else that originates in this White House, thats a damn lie. They are bankrupt, now I ask who’s money are they talking about?