The Ministry of Truth’s paper cousin is suffering from chronic laziness and abject dishonesty. And our President is “open” to the idea of YET ANOTHER BAILOUT.
I guess when he told Wall Street, “Those on Wall Street cannot resume taking risks without regard for consequences, and expect that next time, American taxpayers will be there to break their fall.” (NY Daily News).
But that was evil Capitalist Wall Street.
The newspapers are a different thing. Especially, as they are part of the Ministry of Truth.
“Journalistic integrity, you know, fact-based reporting, serious investigative reporting, how to retain those ethics in all these different new media and how to make sure that it’s paid for, is really a challenge,” Mr. Obama said. “But it’s something that I think is absolutely critical to the health of our democracy.”
Is he reading the same newspapers I gave up on?
These would be the same ones that tried hard to ignore the ACORN story, right? Or the Van Jones Story, or Sonja Sotomayor, Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Obama’s “Czars”, the fake Bush military service story, just like their media cousins.
The same media cousins who often own the newspaper to. Here in Phoenix, the largest newspaper in the state, The Arizona Republic is owned by Gannett Broadcasting.
Incest is best.
And some of the traffic lost to the paper has been made up on the internet, but there is currently not any really efficient business model to make that work very well.
So let’s just bail them out!
After all, they are vital tool in the Ministry of Truth propagating of propaganda.
Azcentral.com: Top headline Today
Arizona is receiving $66 million from the federal stimulus package to revive more than 30 stalled affordable-housing projects for families, seniors and the disabled.
The low-income residential projects range from the Catherine Arms apartments for Native Americans in downtown Phoenix to the Santa Fe Springs subdivision for families in Sierra Vista.
So the Catherine Arms apartment as only for Native Americans?
Actually, with little digging you find that it’s a homeless and low-income housing project with a group called Native American Connections involved touting it’s recognized as a premier Native American service and development organization and it’s aimed at being a cultural center for Native Americans in the Phoenix Area and it was scheduled to open July 2009 but didn’t.
So which story is more in-depth and precise?
And they said 30 projects but only mentioned 2, 1 for Native americans and 1 for seniors. What are the other 28?
I guess that doesn’t matter.
Mind you, this is the same paper that published this gem:
Heat discriminates.
Phoenix’s sweltering summer inflicts the most misery and illness in poor neighborhoods, a new study shows, and among people least able to protect themselves from the elements.
The disparities present threats more serious than just discomfort on a hot day, according to the study, produced by Arizona State University researchers. Prolonged exposure to heat can cause illness or even death. The densely developed nature of the hottest areas also means more of the people most vulnerable – the elderly, children, the homebound – live in the neighborhoods where the risk is greatest.
That link between money and the ability to cope with extreme weather emerged clearly in the research. Among the startling revelations: For every $10,000 an area’s income rises, the average outside temperature drops one-half degree Fahrenheit.
“It’s an environmental-justice issue,” said Darren Ruddell, a geographer who led the study. “The people who are most vulnerable are also living in the worst conditions. It’s a double whammy.”
So that’s why I turned up my thermostat 7 degrees when I got a whopper of an electric bill in July!
I was being discriminated against!
Oh, wait, I’m a lower middle class white “racist” independent conservative.
Whoops!
And that for “every $10,000″ does that mean that the people in Paradise Valley and North Scottsdale live in Ice Caves it’s so cold? (There are 100 $10,000 in a million so multi-million dollar houses must be near below zero! on “average”)
Now that’s journalism for you!
“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” the President said.
Sounds very much like the Ministry of Truth to me.
Several bills have been introduced in Congress to aid the newspaper industry, including a Senate measure that would allow newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks. The President was noncommittal about the legislation but said: “I haven’t seen detailed proposals yet, but I’ll be happy to look at them.”
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) has introduced S. 673, the so-called “Newspaper Revitalization Act,” that would give outlets tax deals if they were to restructure as 501(c)(3) corporations. That bill has so far attracted one cosponsor, Cardin’s Maryland colleague Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D).
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had played down the possibility of government assistance for news organizations, which have been hit by an economic downturn and dwindling ad revenue.
In early May, Gibbs said that while he hadn’t asked the president specifically about bailout options for newspapers, “I don’t know what, in all honesty, government can do about it.”
But remember, no more bailouts! He said so.
Just like “Not one dime”
“95% will receive a tax cut”
“will not raise the deficit”
Obama said that good journalism is “critical to the health of our democracy,” but expressed concern toward growing tends in reporting — especially on political blogs, from which a groundswell of support for his campaign emerged during the presidential election.
So when he was running for President they were good. Now they worry him, why?
“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” he said.
So does that go for the blogs that helped get him elected then too?
Then this kicker from the far-left blogosphere: The Daily Koz
I do not believe, however, that President Obama is correct when he implies that journalistic integrity is absent on blogs and that fact-based reporting is only reserved for newspaper reports. The reality is that our media (even the traditional newspapers, television and radio) are primarily opinion-based.
Honesty from the far left, who’d have guessed!
It continues:
But back to newspapers. The problems newspapers have faced are greater than the obvious ones. People look at the financial struggles, but one thing to look at is the shift from newspapers being a watchdog to newspapers being a business. Nowadays, everything is a business. Newspapers have always been a business, but that part of it was in the background for a long time until new media platforms developed. Now, the struggles of newspapers as a business have moved to the forefront because of newspapers closing, laying off employees or having to make other cuts.
Like any business though, the fault lies with the newspapers. They chose to, initially, resist new media and even start a pseudo-war with blogs and new media platforms because they were nothing more than places for people to go anonymously and post opinions and stories without facts. Blogs then started becoming their competitors and that’s when they decided they needed to jump on board.
Newspapers, like Kodak, Ford and GM, once was a great American innovation. But newspapers failed to embrace the future. Now they are years behind and will continue to struggle unless they adapt to the new ways of the world.
So let’s bail them out!
Anyone seen my Edsel?…
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