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Subject: WHY SAVE THE NEWSPAPERS
SAVE THE NEWSPAPERS? WHY! WHAT IS THERE TO SAVE?
MOST NEWSPAPERS JUST GIVE ONE-SIDED, LIBERAL VIEWS.
By Ron Marr, CNSNews.com
Having worked in, on, and around newspapers for over two decades, I
can say with some authority that the vast majority of reporters, editors,
and publishers are about as sharp as a pound of wet leather. The general
consensus amongst their fraternity is, quite simply, that readers are too
addle-brained to know what is good for them.
The conventional wisdom within the hallowed swamps of journalism is
that your garden variety reader doesn't know what is important, that they
are a wrong-thinking lot who put on their shoes and socks in that order.
Journalists, as a rule, feel that the unwashed masses should be force-fed
"the truth," that they require some sort of Kubrickian, Clockwork Orange
procedure in order to get their minds right.
Of course, readers immediately recognize such hubris as a load of
malarkey. Their response is to simply quit reading the newspaper. There
might have been a time when readers believed that newspapers attempted at
least a semblance of objectivity, roughly around the time when the Hula
Hoop and those new-fangled television sets first came into vogue, but
that era has gone the way of the dodo.
Thus, in the dark days of 2009, newspapers are faced with the reality
of staff terminations, lay-offs, falling ad rates, and a massive Diaspora
of readers. Other industries, confronting the same challenges, would
strive to discover and solve the problem. They would make an attempt to
discern what their customers wanted, re-tool, re-group, and seek to do a
better job.
But, that's just not how life works within the uber-arrogant mindset
of journalism. You see, to them, plummeting profits are the fault of
those pesky, idiot readers. Those members of the trailer-trash club
simply won't listen. They simply don't care about the single-sided
coverage they are provided. Those politically incorrect freaks and geek
actually want objectivity, or at the very least, neutrality.
Such being the case, newspaper owners have but one recourse. They
seek a government bailout.
According to a paper commissioned by the Columbia University
Journalism School and Columbia professor Michael Schudson (co-authored by
former Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie), the print media
deserves federal assistance. They believe that the government, publicly
funded universities, and private, philanthropic organizations should step
in to save journalism.
I don't qute get this. With a few notable exceptions, what is there
to save? For most businesses (the car and banking industry
notwithstanding, as they have already been nationalized) an enterprise
which refuses to provide customers with the product they seek is allowed
to die an appropriate death. If you decide to open a butcher shop in the
middle of Calcutta , and advertise beef briskets from sacred cows, you
pretty much deserve what you get.
However, the traditional journalism industry believes it is a cut
above. They assume their customer base is nothing but a collection of
one-toothed peons and web-footed miscreants who are barely able to get
through the day without soiling themselves. In their minds, newspapers
should receive a dispensation from failure because they are providing an
invaluable public service.
In other words, journalists feel it is their sworn duty to save the
tongue-chewers from themselves.
The grand Pooh-Bahs of journalism are asking for breaks in the tax
codes that will allow local newspapers to function as non-profit groups.
This is not to be confused as the sort of non-profit groups that lose
money every quarter because they provide a crummy product, for newspapers
have already gotten that one down pat. The status they prefer is
non-profit in the sense that taxpayers bend over, smile, and fund the
paper's losses. They also hope to be given fees from telecom
organizations and Internet providers in the form of grants, which would
allow them to continue to function as little but the government hacks and
public relations shills that they already are.
Really, should the dream of the newspaper owners come to fruition,
things won't be all that different from now. Their coverage will still
parrot the every whim of the White House. They will still offer coverage
that embellishes but one side of an issue, and either utterly ignores or
totally denigrates the other side. Their readership will continue to
fall, and their coffers will be as empty as a pauper's pocket.
There would be one difference. At present, you can simply refuse to
by a newspaper that you detest. But if the power brokers of journalism
get their way, you'll be ponying up cash every week.
-- (Ron Marr is the editor/publisher/& janitor of Troutwrapper.com, an
on-line, weekly newspaper dedicated to hunting down and publicly
tormenting the humor impaired.)
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The news media almost always sides with the big money elite and the
establishing of the United Nations One-World Government. While traveling
around the country, we find that most large city newspapers, TV and radio
stations have next to no news. The news media just wants to stupify us
with news about violence, sports and sex to distract us from the really
important issues.
We must find a way to make the public curious about what is really
happening in the world so that they can recognize and associate the
present with past events. Internet news lists and the
millions of Internet web sites are a great source of uncensored news.
Many foreign newspaper websites will tell you more about what is
happening in the USA than our own USA news media.
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