Bailout who?
This morning, Michelle Malkin writes in her syndicated column that some northeast liberals (of both political persuasions) are taking advantage of the economic downturn to beg for bailout money for the deadtree journalists. Let ’em sink. They’ve been sinking for a while ever since journalists decided they needed to be activists more than they needed to inform the People – the reason they’re protected by the Bill of Rights. If people want to read the crap they print, let them pay for it.
Even though I don’t read any hardcopy news, I suscribe to several. I pay an annual subscription to The Washington Times and I haven’t read it (beyond the Mallard Filmore cartoon) for years. The Washington Times hemmorages cash by the millions of dollars every year, but news- and opinion-wise it counters and creates competition for the idiot Washington Post. I’ve never bought a Post – well, except once I decided I needed the Sunday Post, but the bonehead who delivered it rang my doorbell at 5am on a Sunday to announce it’s arrival. I immediately cancelled my subscription to avoid that happening again.
The Washington Times stays afloat because of it’s wealthy benefactor (its the Reverend Moon, if you didn’t already know) who thinks that having a conservative-leaning newspaper in DC is important. If the New York Times found a wealthy benefactor, they could do the same thing. Or any-damn-body else for that matter.
Taxpayers already support the so-called journalists of NPR and look what we get for our money. Why the Hell would we want to support more elitist goofballs to look down their noses at us while we pay them for their idiot opinions disguised as news?
The Wall Street Journal is another subscription I have – they’ve made internet subscription succesful. Since I spend all day and much of the night on the internet it only makes sense that most of my news comes from internet sources. I hope everyone doesn’t make internet subscriptions mandatory – although it might be a good way to kill the internet.
My point is that these folks need to figure a way to keep up with technology instead of begging the government to help them fight the technology. We’ve already got AMTRAK to support, we don’t need to prop up every 19th century invention.
Category: Politics
