Obama apointee...bail out the media and license them.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/obama-appointee-suggests-radical-plan-newspaper-bailout/

Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry.

Why should we bail anyone out with our tax dollars? The Newspapers have spoon fed us their leftist slanted garbage for the last 50 years and people are sick and tired of it. Newspapers are dead..they did it to themselves and now with the internet..who the hell needs em?

Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern news operations.

What the fuck? Why in the fuck would someone need a license to report the news? Ahh I get it....they are trying to kill political blogs. The voices of dissent are scaring the puppet masters.

"Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off," she wrote in her parting column on April 9.

How can a license encourage robust reporting? Just the opposite you filthy Stalinist bitch! I'm not wringing my hands at all over this! Fire all of those worthless pieces of shit. This past election has shown that there is not an independent thought in that clogged enema bag the media collectively uses for a brain.

Brooks said this would help rescue the industry from a "death spiral" and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. "[I] can't imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed," she wrote.

Keep em honest? That's the pot calling the kettle black. Miss Brooks, what you mean to say is that Obama administration will determine what is the truth and what is not fit to report. What happens to someone who writes without a license? Do they go to a FEMA camp or the salt mines?

But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.

No shit Sherlock ..ya think?

An independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy," said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group. Bozell said licensing journalists would violate American traditions and was a form of "intellectual prostitution."

"Since when did our Founding Fathers envision that ... you could exercise your right to freedom of speech provided you had a license from the federal government? This is the kind of stuff you have revolutions about,"

Finally a voice of reason! Intellectual protitution is pretty much what we have now with a few notable exceptions.


Brooks worried in her column that the death of newspapers would spell an end to investigative journalism and leave the country with only "yapping heads" on television and "nothing in our newspapers but ads, entertainment features and crossword puzzles."

I guess the yapping heads are the folks on Fox News..they happen to have some of the highest ratings in the industry and are the only voice of dissent as far as I can tell. Chew on that Brooks.