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The Federal Trade Commission, in a May 24, draft proposal, wants the federal government to overhaul journalism. They want to "save" traditional media by...wait for it, wait for it ...taxing consumer electronic devices (ipads, kindles, cellphones, laptops, etc.) that allow consumers to read the news online and they want to tax news aggregators like Google News, Drudge Report, Digg, Fark and Reddit. They think it will force us back to newspapers.
And how about this very scary idea being put forth -- they want to establish an AmeriCorps for reporters. Can we say government controlled media...how totalitarian can you get?
They also want to give news organizations tax exemptions which in my opinion, is to make them go along with the AmeriCorps government takeover. Take money from Tony Soprano and you are going to wind up returning the favor down the road because you will need their money to keep your operation afloat. It's going to be tempting to news organizations who are losing their shirts, these days.
This should scare the bleep out of people. I mean really, this is the scariest big government thing I've heard yet --- make a grab to control the media.
To be fair, I haven't heard/read that Obama and Congress are eager to jump on this FTC recommendation but who leaked it and is it a trial balloon to see how people react?
The Federal Trade Commission has hosted a series of workshops on the Future of Journalism: “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” ... On May 24, the FTC released a staff discussion draft in advance of the next workshop on June 15. The discussion draft collects proposals and public comments articulated during previous panel conversations and in reports and articles about the future of journalism. The staff discussion draft states:
“[T]hrough this document, we seek to prompt discussion of whether to recommend policy changes to support the ongoing reinvention of journalism, and, if so, which specific proposals appear most useful, feasible, platform-neutral, resistant to bias, and unlikely to cause unintended consequences in addressing emerging gaps in news coverage.”
The FTC has not endorsed the idea of making any policy recommendation or recommended any of the proposals in the discussion draft.
Recent press reports have erroneously stated that the FTC is supporting and proposing some of the public comments (for example, taxes on electronic devices, favoring one medium over another).
The Federal Trade Commission, in a May 24, draft proposal, wants the federal government to overhaul journalism. They want to "save" traditional media by...wait for it, wait for it ...taxing consumer electronic devices (ipads, kindles, cellphones, laptops, etc.) that allow consumers to read the news online and they want to tax news aggregators like Google News, Drudge Report, Digg, Fark and Reddit. They think it will force us back to newspapers.
And how about this very scary idea being put forth -- they want to establish an AmeriCorps for reporters. Can we say government controlled media...how totalitarian can you get?
They also want to give news organizations tax exemptions which in my opinion, is to make them go along with the AmeriCorps government takeover. Take money from Tony Soprano and you are going to wind up returning the favor down the road because you will need their money to keep your operation afloat. It's going to be tempting to news organizations who are losing their shirts, these days.
This should scare the bleep out of people. I mean really, this is the scariest big government thing I've heard yet --- make a grab to control the media.
To be fair, I haven't heard/read that Obama and Congress are eager to jump on this FTC recommendation but who leaked it and is it a trial balloon to see how people react?
Sun Myung Moon still owns the Washington Times,doesn't he?
And that makes the paper essentially a house organ for the Unification Church.
So hardly a useful or unbiased news outlet is it OP?
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