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Govt will need to help shape U.S. media: Waxman | Politics | ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Democratic lawmaker predicted on Wednesday that the government will be involved in shaping the future for struggling U.S. media organizations.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, saying quality journalism was essential to U.S. democracy, said eventually government would have to help resolve the problems caused by a failing business model.
Waxman, other U.S. lawmakers and regulators are looking into various options to help a newspaper industry hurt by the shift in advertising revenues to online platforms.
Tweaks to the tax code to allow newspapers to spread losses over a greater number of years, providing a nonprofit structure to allow for public and foundation funding, and changes to antitrust laws are being considered by lawmakers and policymakers.
"Eventually government is going to have to be responsible to help and resolve these issues," Waxman told a conference hosted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on the future of journalism.
Free Press, a public interest group, said the search for solutions to the crisis in journalism should be premised on the idea that news-gathering is a public service, not a commodity.
Waxman's "indication that government has a role to play is both bold and soberly sensible," said Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott on the sidelines of the FTC conference.
At the Federal Communications Commission, officials are embarking on a quadrennial review of the state of U.S. media. The study, which is mandated by Congress, seeks to determine whether current rules should be changed to allow for a more vibrant media industry serving a diverse audience.
Scary, ****ing, ****.
Tweaks to the tax code to allow newspapers to spread losses over a greater number of years, providing a nonprofit structure to allow for public and foundation funding, and changes to antitrust laws are being considered by lawmakers and policymakers.
Uhm... no commentary?
Do people not see the utter danger implicit in the above suggestions?
Maybe if you weren't such a liberal koolaid drinker, you'd see how Obama is diffferent from the rest. You didn't see these articles when Bush and Clinton were in office. The mouthfoamers that eat up this **** from the Obama administration will doom this nation.Maybe if you took the time to read your articles, perhaps you wouldn't blurt out insane comments?
The government shaped modern charities the same way.
Maybe if you took the time to read your articles, perhaps you wouldn't blurt out insane comments?
The government shaped modern charities the same way.
The Nostrilitus.This alone scares the **** out of me.
Huh, a democrat trying to save an industry that is possibly going on the endangered list, perhaps even extinction. What a conservative thing to do....:2razz:
Yeah, I agree.
I have a business manufacturing 11" floppy discs. You think Waxman will help me out?? Business hasn't been too good lately. :lol:
Huh, a democrat trying to save an industry that is possibly going on the endangered list, perhaps even extinction. What a conservative thing to do....:2razz:
Nah, we hated the spotted owl. :lol:Huh, a democrat trying to save an industry that is possibly going on the endangered list, perhaps even extinction. What a conservative thing to do....:2razz:
Uhm... no commentary?
Do people not see the utter danger implicit in the above suggestions?
What industry are you speaking to? The media? Newpapers? The news itself?
Not really. He stated it wrong, but all his policies are doing is making sure newspapers survive. He isn't saying certain newspapers with certain viewpoints. All he's saying is that newspapers are the best, most reliable sources of news, and he's absolutely right about that.
This alone scares the **** out of me.
The media.....mostly the newspapers. they are archaic. OTOH, new and modern methods of disseminating the news includes talking heads, pundits, etc. are guilty of distortion. Even the major networks have some reporters with bi-assed opinions.
News should not be embellished, but that seems to be the current methodology of getting the news out. Distort it, slant it, edit it, etc. until you can no longer trust any of the methods of dissemination....
Ratface is gnawing away at the Constitution......:mrgreen:
Maybe if you took the time to read your articles, perhaps you wouldn't blurt out insane comments?
The government shaped modern charities the same way.
Here’s the difference…
Charities, in general, don’t have a vital role in government.
The media, in general, does.
The Media is supposed to be an outlet for the voice of the people, a barometer of them in a way. It’s supposed to be a check on the politicians, to expose in clear terms to the people what their government is doing and to investigate at times to find out more. They are whistle blowers and they are watch dogs.
Now, they don’t always do this job well and I won’t sit here and say there are not biases evident in the media, on both sides.
What I will say though is that if the government takes action to “save” a portion of the media landscape through the use of governmental means then that makes that portion of the media reliant on the government for its sustained growth and possibly existence. As such it brings up questions of potential bias and negligence when it comes to covering governmental things, and also breeds questions of what sort of pressure could politico’s put on that portion of the media to put forth the propaganda they wish.
Its far different then trying to compare it to charities.
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