Impeccable in its timing, Rasmussen Reports comes out with a poll indicating that Americans aren’t in fact like communists, and don’t in fact think that government “bailing out” the news media represents “hope” or “change we can believe in”.
…as far as the public is concerned, the financially troubled news industry is on its own. Just 25% of American adults favor the creation of a White House commission to help save journalism jobs and find ways for struggling news organizations to survive. Sixty-five percent (65%) oppose a government bailout of the newspaper industry.
Gee how could folks think this way? What could possibly go wrong with the state owning or loaning or taking a financial interest in the media, particularly the news media?
Which reminds me: tonight on the CBC which hardly anybody watches for a large number of solid reasons: “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. (CBC teaser: “When Yasir joins a local gentleman’s lodge to find new business contacts, he’s in over his head when he’s expected to join the lodge on a hunting trip.” Hunting?! With the white male business folk? With g-g-guns? And conflating guns and hunting with business and white male business contacts, and juxtaposing that with an innocent, gentle Muslim on the otherwise wholesome prairies? 
Let’s hope they have government health care in case someone pulls a Dick Cheney on ‘em! Eh?!)
And featured right now on the on state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC.ca: In a speech this morning, Michael Ignatieff promises to put the screws on those darn Conservatives who aren’t nearly as tax-y and spend-y and supportive of the state-owned media and “investing” in businesses and specially selected people! (No, no mention of Prime Minister Harper’s speech this morning, despite the fact that Harper announced government— taxpayer — funding for “green” powertrain projects at Linamar Corporation in Guelph, Ontario…)
YES WE CAN!
Report at The Hill today:
Obama open to newspaper bailout bill
By Michael O’Brien – 09/20/09 04:24 PM ET
The president said he is “happy to look at” bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses.
“I haven’t seen detailed proposals yet, but I’ll be happy to look at them,” Obama told the editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade in an interview.
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). …
You know how Americans on both sides of the isle (including President Obama) distanced themselves from the Canadian “health care” system because it’s so clearly a bad example to follow? Well let’s hope they start critically analyzing the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC now. And Cuba’s national newspaper, Granma . And perhaps the Soviet Union’s Pravda, before the Soviet Union and communism collapsed. Or any of the media Hugo Chavez hasn’t taken over or shut down yet (just one outlet remains).
And there are lots of other clues available.
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