Release of the Federal Trade Commission’s working paper on “reinventing journalism” makes it clear that there is no more time for diplomacy about this issue: Barack Obama is determined to federalize the news industry just as he has banking, autos, and health care.
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Those in the administration who clearly view independent journalism as an obstacle to “change we can believe in” and their numerous allies in the old media, non-profit activists, and academic community who either share a similar ideological vision or see the FTC process as their salvation against the Internet will no doubt dismiss my assertions as extemism or alarmism.
Fine, call me whatever, but what they cannot deny is what is written in the FTC document and what it clearly tells us about the intention behind the initiative, which is to transform the news industry from an information product collected by private individuals and entrepreneurs as a service to buyers to a government-regulated utility providing a “public good,” as defined by government.
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Jounalism has already been reinvented, it’s called the blogosphere.
Dems know they can’t win without the Noise Machine backing them up. Therefore, BAILOUT! Gotta reward the loyal soldiers before they start getting testy.
What the Dems don’t get yet is that they can’t win anyway, MSM support or no. Even if they cheat they’re still f-ed. Too many Americans finally understand what kind of people the Dems are and what they want to change America into. Namely Greece.
Obama just wants his version of CBC.
The Soviets tried that too.
Bankrupt individuals, kill people who will not shut up even when poor, reward mindless obedience to the zero, destroy faith in God (God does not ‘feed’, Communist dictators ‘feed’ the obedient). Bamma has collectivized the car business, bankrupt the Gulf fishermen and businessmen, stolen state land from states (parks are not ‘for the people’ parks are ‘not for the prosperity of some individuals’). The UN owns Baniff and Jasper! If all people are crammed into small urban cells they have no room to develop individuality – farmers are noted for their detachment from ‘the system’ and terrified parents do not allow their children to blow their noses unsupervised. It is a progressive plan; one that ‘we the people’ must stop if we wish to live as free people.
Baniff??? Thought it was called Banff. In fact I know it is called Banff. Even though it, Jasper, Yoho, and Kootenay together are designated a UNESCO world heritage site that does not mean that the UN has any part in the management of the Park. In fact the UN does not manage any of the 14 UNESCO sites in Canada. Its one of the few areas where they don’t stick thier pointy little noses.
Banff, indeed it is, after Banff and Banffshire in
Scotland. There is a touch of a Scottish atmosphere
at Banff Alberta. The insertion of an “i” in
words such as “film” (forming “fillim”) and “tulip”
(prob from Dutch “tulp” after a Turkish turban)
is commonplace and not objectionable to most.
The INTERNET, like Printing. Is here to stay.
How many laws including Catholic bans on books actually worked. Well, unless caught before published. Zero.
From Soviets to Nazi’s it failed.
Once you can disseminate knowledge without borders or money. Its an impossible task
So many satellites. So many links. Even the Chinese can’t control world communications. The Crackers & Hackers sit lazy by. Waiting for irresistible challenges. From Government to business. All for the joy of busting code. Bad code at that.
The censors can ban all they want. Its to late. Maybe in 1996 they could have. This now spans a Planet in a multiplicity of forms.
It would be like making fire illegal world wide.
JMO
Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?
This is both troubling and predicable. I’d said during the 08’ election that the media was “pot committed” and likely “all in” with regards to its game plan moving forward and its sustainability. This is precisely what I meant. My daughter just finished reading “Animal Farm” last month, but I doubt many my age or younger have read it; nor remember the old USSR, its history, and the disturbing pattern emerging with respect to our own media. Will Americans be “outraged” at this affront to Americanism? I doubt it, I doubt they will feel or notice anything; especially with oil spills and pop-culture’s next scandal serving as misdirection for the public.
This generation of 20-30 something’s is lost; too arrogant and naive to understand their level of ignorance. The best solution for smartening-up our culture is to make sure our school aged kids are getting the straight goods at home. If we can bookend the retards on both ends generationally, we perhaps can purge this poison from our system moving forward. They have our kids in the schools, yet they are not educating them; they are programming them, on our dime. We must protect our kids from this assault on their minds, not to mention the thievery of an education that we’re paying for.
If we can do that, then the next task is to deal with the Boomers that intend to suck us dry, and will, through their might at the ballot box.
Thanks John Lewis – I should know better than to spell Banff incorrectly as I was born not far from Banff and my ancestors came from Scotland. What on earth is UNESCO doing in Alberta audj? Furthermore, go read the sign at Lake Louise if you don’t believe me. Canadian citizens cannot buy land in Federal or Provincial parks. How wrong is that?
(“benefit” and “flexible purpose” corporations that can judge success on serving a mission and not just maximizing profits)
Phantom
This is what I meant the other day regarding my view that the liberal media is unwilling to compete in the free market. I went on to say that they feel entitled to do their work regardless of the works market value. The quote above speaks to that very point. To sum it up, in my view, the main motivating factor for modern day liberalism is: Laziness.
The only way that government tyranny will stop the flow of news information is if they shut down the internet completely. I subscribe to an on-line national newspaper and after reading the stories that interest me I jump on the web to find the true version.
“Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?”
No, not yet honey, your Mom is still eating her dinner”
Folks: Isn’t this eerie, if not down right scary? Here we are talking as if we were preparing ourselves to “go underground” with our Blogosphere so that we might be able to maintain a sense of freedom; to carry on with our free thoughts that we always took for granted. The barbarians are at the door and, I fear, are charging o’er the ramparts with self-proclaimed god-king Obalmy sending his glassy-eye, grinning troops ahead as he waves his red flag of hammer/sickle/crescent emblazoned banner. We are lost, alas; reduced to shadowy resistance fighters trying to keep links open on the Fed-censured internet as our last attempts to retain some sanity.
It’s akin to ‘Farenheit 451’. When I was a kid I thought it was just an interesting book/movie. Never thought I would live to see it happening (or at least starting). Maybe we should burn the Whitehouse again instead.
Didn’t “Baniff” used to be an airline?
“How many laws including Catholic bans on books actually worked. Well, unless caught before published. Zero.
From Soviets to Nazi’s it failed.”
Dont forget how many lives were lost during those times!
You realize of course that this is just another chunk of the asteroid heading for the dumb@sses of the MSM??
The Man from B.E.C.K. has a lot of it nailed down.
A broad range of books, from Dr. Zhivago to the Bible, moved around the Soviet Union and East Bloc during the seventy years of its’ existence. Censorship and suppression ultimately failed and the internet played a part in the failure. As the Zero will find out, freedom loving people can not be suppressed for ever.
Censorship doesn’t work? You call a couple bibles and a handful of non-approved books floating around in the midst of millions freedom?
China may not be capable of keeping everything out but when the internet is shut down by the US, what then? Or, they can make service so expensive only government agencies could afford to use it. Never underestimate the power of the state!
There is more to this move than meets the eye.
One commentator, Jeff, responded to Mark with this tid bit of interesting information:
“What in the government subsidies section is even remotely “dangerous?” Allowing people to be trained as journalists in Americorp? Giving money to allow journalism students to do investigative journalism? Really? These things frighten you?”
IMO,Americorps is nothing short of the “National Civillian Security Force” that Obama promised.
On July 2nd he said, I quote, in his speech “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the Armed Forces.”…”People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve.”
Moreover, He plans to “double the Peace Corps’ budget by 2011, and expand AmeriCorps, USA Freedom Corps, VISTA, YouthBuild Program, and the Senior Corps. Plus, he proposes to form a Classroom Corps, Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Veterans Corps, Homeland Security Corps, Global Energy Corps, and a Green Jobs Corps. Here a corps – there a corps – everywhere a corps corps.”
The only corps missing is the Propoganda, media and/or Journalism Corps.
“It seems clear that he meant to say, in effect, that the security of the nation is as dependent on its unarmed community service providers as it is on its armed military personnel. Even the nomenclature “corps,” as in Peace Corps, carries a martial connotation as does the name, Salvation Army. His point: national security begins with civilians. It’s a message like the one America’s home front heard throughout World War II. Except in his case, he means to marshal volunteers for social service and economic equality while saving the environment.”
“Because the future of our nation depends on the soldier at Fort Carson, but is also depends on the teacher in East LA, the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans…”
“That is, of course, true. But ultimate national security requires someone to carry, and, if necessary, discharge a deadly weapon with intent to kill. This is something teachers, nurses and after-school workers are typically unaccustomed to doing as part of their service obligations.”
Voters haven’t paid much attention to his “Service” plan because the old news media has ignored it. That will likely continue, even though Obama attached an approximate price tag to it in Colorado Springs. When Obama said that the “civilian national security force” would be just as “well-funded” as the Armed Forces, he stepped squarely into the giant sandbox and played with the big numbers. As the late Carl Sagan said, “billions and billions” of dollars. Here’s how.”
“The FY 2008 Department of Defense (DoD) budget is about $482 billion. Obama has announced his intentions to cut “tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending,” including $9 billion per month spent in Iraq and expenditures for the missile defense system, while increasing the force size of the Army and Marine Corps.”
“Let’s imagine “tens of billions” in cuts eventually adds up to a whopping $150 billion. That would be a near one-third cut in defense spending, taking the DoD budget down to $332 billion. Even in such an extreme case of DoD budget reduction, for his “civilian national security force” to be “just as well-funded” would mean funding his community service initiatives at an equivalent $332 billion.”
“Consequently, another $332 billion in addition to the Pentagon’s reduced budget of $332 billion equals a net increase of $182 billion in the annual federal budget, assuming we sponge-up the already existing expenditures for the relatively meager, by comparison, existing service programs he plans to expand. That’s $182,000,000,000 in new federal monies, and that means higher taxes.”
” In his entire life, Obama has never managed an organization larger than a Senate staff, or that of a law school publication. And, he’s never operated a for-profit business or been responsible for any profit center within one. So, while words matter to Senator Obama, it’s not clear if math means anything to him at all.”
Anything with quotes from:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.htm
I meant to include that this Journalism Corps, IMO, will be used very similiarly to the way factcheck.org is now to rebuff any discenting views.
To jog your memory about factcheck.org:
From Google Search:
FactCheck.org – Annenberg Political Fact Check Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major US political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
It gets even more interesting:
The Annenberg Foundation is at the center of the ongoing Obama-Bill Ayers controversy. Ayers was a former member of the homegrown terrorist group, the Weather Underground, which took credit for bombing the Pentagon, the Capital Building, and the New York City Metro Police Department plus 30+ other bombings during the Vietnam War era.
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/10/obama-bill-ayers-and-factcheckorg-all-have-ties-to-annenberg-foundation/
I worry about that Mosque going up in New York – if something happens – who do you think will be blamed?