Comments on: A self-inflicted problem for the media http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/10/26/a-self-inflicted-problem-for-the-media/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:09:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Canucklehead http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/10/26/a-self-inflicted-problem-for-the-media/#comment-314410 Canucklehead Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:52:03 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6893#comment-314410 It looks like the MSM needs regulation and strangulation of the interenet, along with mandated fairness doctrines to politicize the news. This in turn would generate large ad revenue from "competing" ideologies. In a laissez faire atmosphere, the trend would be for people to get their news from an internet source of their liking. In order for the MSM to survive, the fragmentation of the mass media market needs to be stopped. MSM needs Big Brother to step in and mandate franchises on news content. Without that franchise, AP, NYT, etc aren't worth the paper they use to publish the news. It looks like the MSM needs regulation and strangulation of the interenet, along with mandated fairness doctrines to politicize the news. This in turn would generate large ad revenue from “competing” ideologies.

In a laissez faire atmosphere, the trend would be for people to get their news from an internet source of their liking. In order for the MSM to survive, the fragmentation of the mass media market needs to be stopped. MSM needs Big Brother to step in and mandate franchises on news content.

Without that franchise, AP, NYT, etc aren’t worth the paper they use to publish the news.

]]> By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/10/26/a-self-inflicted-problem-for-the-media/#comment-314398 gs Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:18:31 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6893#comment-314398 <i><b>A self-inflicted problem for the media</b></i> <i>We understand that the MSM are in the tank for the Democratic ticket. That has always been the case in recent years. But this time around the media seem to have gone out of their way...</i> This time around the media's financial position has become dangerously precarious. In addition to its members' ideology, institutional self-interest may be driving the MSM's behavior. From time to time I see conjectures that the MSM will ask a Democratic government for subsidies (financial and regulatory) to stay afloat. Based on how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS" rel="nofollow">PBS</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_endowment_for_the_arts" rel="nofollow">NEA</a> have fared, such subsidies would be reduced but not eliminated in the event that the GOP ever gets back into power. On balance the MSM would come out ahead. A self-inflicted problem for the media

We understand that the MSM are in the tank for the Democratic ticket. That has always been the case in recent years. But this time around the media seem to have gone out of their way…

This time around the media’s financial position has become dangerously precarious. In addition to its members’ ideology, institutional self-interest may be driving the MSM’s behavior.

From time to time I see conjectures that the MSM will ask a Democratic government for subsidies (financial and regulatory) to stay afloat. Based on how PBS and the NEA have fared, such subsidies would be reduced but not eliminated in the event that the GOP ever gets back into power. On balance the MSM would come out ahead.

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