The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" by subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased.
Here is an example of how government-subsidized journalism works in Mexico:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Bordering on Chaos" by Andres Oppenheimer, Little, Brown and Company, 1996
[Excerpts from pages 131-136]
"In the months preceding the [1994] elections, Televisa gave most of its airtime to the [Ernesto] Zedillo [PRI] campaign. Meanwhile, it equated coverage of Zedillo's main rivals, the center-right National Action Party (PAN) and the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), with that of some half a dozen minuscule parties, many of which had been created by the government for the purpose of splitting the legitimate opposition vote."
"What was even more telling was the amount of time that Televisa was giving to tiny political parties, most of which were financed by the government and had never won more than 1% of the vote in a national election. Televisa's top news program had devoted more time to each of the candidates of the Green Environmental Party of Mexico (PVEM), the Mexican Democratic Party (PDM), and the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (PARM) than to [Cuauhtémoc] Cárdenas or [Diego] Fernández de Cevallos [PAN]. If you watched Televisa without knowing much about Mexico, you would have concluded that any of the three small parties was more important than Cárdenas' PRD, which according to government critics had won as many votes as Salinas -- if not more -- in the murky 1988 presidential elections."
"Post-election television coverage studies left little doubt about Televisa’s manipulation of the news. In addition to giving Zedillo eight times more airtime than any of his adversaries, the network seemed to consciously play opposition candidates up or down according to the PRI's daily needs. After giving scant coverage to the Cárdenas campaign for several months, Televisa suddenly began to prop up the center-left candidate two weeks before the elections. In the final week of the campaign, Cárdenas got 6.1 minutes of airtime on '24 Horas,' much more than Fernández de Cevallos' 3.2 minutes. The other five leading television news programs on both networks showed a similar -- and equally sudden -- pattern of increased coverage of Cárdenas. It wasn't a last-minute act of repentance: By then, Cárdenas had fallen far behind in the polls. Fernández de Cevallos was the biggest threat to the Zedillo campaign."
"While the total readership of Mexican newspapers was relatively small -- Mexico City’s 23 daily newspapers, of which only half a dozen had a real readership, had a combined circulation of few than 500,000 copies -- newspaper coverage of the election wasn't left to chance either. Early in the presidential race, the ruling party had secretly paid millions to Mexico's largest dailies to publish Zedillo campaign propaganda disguised as news."
"Through the separate 'convenios,' or secret contracts with newspapers, the PRI had paid about $800,000 each to Mexico’s largest newspapers -- including the pro-government dailies Excelsior and El Universal, and the leftist opposition daily La Jornada -- to regularly carry Zedillo campaign news on their front pages. In addition, various PRI state governments signed their own convenios with the same newspapers to obtain sympathetic coverage for their local candidates, in effect elevating to about $3 million the figure each of the newspapers was getting from various government and party agencies."
"Reporters weren't terribly upset about these deals: About 10% of each contract went directly to the reporters covering the campaign -- meaning that a journalist covering Zedillo got about an $80,000 commission, not bad in a country where most reporters made a miserable salary of $12,000 a year. Considering the fat checks the publishers and a few chosen reporters were getting, it was not surprising that few would blow the whistle on the deals, which were common knowledge in the newsrooms." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Eddie Haskell
2010-06-14 17:28:29 EST
"D\ufffdnk 666" <dank420@rocketmail.com> wrote in message news:afdbb3eb-2516-4ce2-8466-fabd78d8a196@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" > by subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the > public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased.
Oh, my god. A liberal newspaper bailout.
-Eddie Haskell
Sage2
2010-06-14 20:35:21 EST
On Jun 14, 2:01 pm, Dänk 666 <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" > by subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the > public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. > > Here is an example of how government-subsidized journalism works in > Mexico:
Propaganda paid for by any Government is merely that ; " PROPAGANDA " !! > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Bordering on Chaos" by Andres Oppenheimer, Little, Brown and Company, > 1996 > > [Excerpts from pages 131-136] > > "In the months preceding the [1994] elections, Televisa gave most of > its airtime to the [Ernesto] Zedillo [PRI] campaign. Meanwhile, it > equated coverage of Zedillo's main rivals, the center-right National > Action Party (PAN) and the center-left Party of the Democratic > Revolution (PRD), with that of some half a dozen minuscule parties, > many of which had been created by the government for the purpose of > splitting the legitimate opposition vote." > > "What was even more telling was the amount of time that Televisa was > giving to tiny political parties, most of which were financed by the > government and had never won more than 1% of the vote in a national > election. Televisa's top news program had devoted more time to each > of the candidates of the Green Environmental Party of Mexico (PVEM), > the Mexican Democratic Party (PDM), and the Authentic Party of the > Mexican Revolution (PARM) than to [Cuauhtémoc] Cárdenas or [Diego] > Fernández de Cevallos [PAN]. If you watched Televisa without knowing > much about Mexico, you would have concluded that any of the three > small parties was more important than Cárdenas' PRD, which according > to government critics had won as many votes as Salinas -- if not more > -- in the murky 1988 presidential elections." > > "Post-election television coverage studies left little doubt about > Televisa’s manipulation of the news. In addition to giving Zedillo > eight times more airtime than any of his adversaries, the network > seemed to consciously play opposition candidates up or down according > to the PRI's daily needs. After giving scant coverage to the Cárdenas > campaign for several months, Televisa suddenly began to prop up the > center-left candidate two weeks before the elections. In the final > week of the campaign, Cárdenas got 6.1 minutes of airtime on '24 > Horas,' much more than Fernández de Cevallos' 3.2 minutes. The other > five leading television news programs on both networks showed a > similar -- and equally sudden -- pattern of increased coverage of > Cárdenas. It wasn't a last-minute act of repentance: By then, > Cárdenas had fallen far behind in the polls. Fernández de Cevallos > was the biggest threat to the Zedillo campaign." > > "While the total readership of Mexican newspapers was relatively small > -- Mexico City’s 23 daily newspapers, of which only half a dozen had a > real readership, had a combined circulation of few than 500,000 copies > -- newspaper coverage of the election wasn't left to chance either. > Early in the presidential race, the ruling party had secretly paid > millions to Mexico's largest dailies to publish Zedillo campaign > propaganda disguised as news." > > "Through the separate 'convenios,' or secret contracts with > newspapers, the PRI had paid about $800,000 each to Mexico’s largest > newspapers -- including the pro-government dailies Excelsior and El > Universal, and the leftist opposition daily La Jornada -- to regularly > carry Zedillo campaign news on their front pages. In addition, > various PRI state governments signed their own convenios with the same > newspapers to obtain sympathetic coverage for their local candidates, > in effect elevating to about $3 million the figure each of the > newspapers was getting from various government and party agencies." > > "Reporters weren't terribly upset about these deals: About 10% of each > contract went directly to the reporters covering the campaign -- > meaning that a journalist covering Zedillo got about an $80,000 > commission, not bad in a country where most reporters made a miserable > salary of $12,000 a year. Considering the fat checks the publishers > and a few chosen reporters were getting, it was not surprising that > few would blow the whistle on the deals, which were common knowledge > in the newsrooms." > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
5511 Dead, 644 Since 1/20/09
2010-06-14 21:46:49 EST
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:28:29 -0500, Eddie Haskell wrote:
> "Dänk 666" <dank420@rocketmail.com> wrote in message > news:afdbb3eb-2516-4ce2-8466- f*6@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" by >> subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the >> public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. > > Oh, my god. A liberal newspaper bailout. > > -Eddie Haskell
Danky is snivelling about a trial balloon the admin sent up last January and promptly abandoned because there was a generally negative reaction.
Dänk_666?=
2010-06-14 22:40:08 EST
On Jun 14, 7:46 pm, "5511 Dead, 644 since 1/20/09" <d...@dead.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:28:29 -0500, Eddie Haskell wrote: > > "Dänk 666" <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote in message > > news:afdbb3eb-2516-4ce2-8466- > > fabd78d8a...@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > > >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" by > >> subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the > >> public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. > > > Oh, my god. A liberal newspaper bailout. > > > -Eddie Haskell > > Danky is snivelling about a trial balloon the admin sent up last January > and promptly abandoned because there was a generally negative reaction.
And if Bush had sent up a similar 'trial balloon,' you would still be having conniption fits about it today.
Ray Fischer
2010-06-15 02:51:07 EST
Sage2 <wisdom812@gmail.com> wrote: >On Jun 14, 2:01\ufffdpm, D\ufffdnk 666 <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote: >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" >> by subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the >> public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. >> >> Here is an example of how government-subsidized journalism works in >> Mexico: > > Propaganda paid for by any Government is merely that ; " >PROPAGANDA " !!
Subsidizing journalism is not paying for propaganda.
-- Ray Fischer r*r@sonic.net
China Blue Aster
2010-06-15 04:21:23 EST
In article <e0abc976-d043-47d0-8198-cbf6b5c9e238@q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, D\ufffdnk 666 <dank420@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 7:46\ufffdpm, "5511 Dead, 644 since 1/20/09" <d...@dead.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:28:29 -0500, Eddie Haskell wrote: > > > "D\ufffdnk 666" <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote in message > > > news:afdbb3eb-2516-4ce2-8466- > > > > fabd78d8a...@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > > > > >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" by > > >> subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the > > >> public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. > > > > > Oh, my god. A liberal newspaper bailout. > > > > > -Eddie Haskell > > > > Danky is snivelling about a trial balloon the admin sent up last January > > and promptly abandoned because there was a generally negative reaction. > > And if Bush had sent up a similar 'trial balloon,' you would still be > having conniption fits about it today.
Congress and Bush did subsidise journalism. Bush's interference with PBS had more to do documentaries and not the daily and weekly journalism.
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5511 Dead, 644 Since 1/20/09
2010-06-15 10:37:22 EST
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:21:23 -0700, China Blue Aster wrote:
> In article > <e0abc976-d043-47d0-8198-cbf6b5c9e238@q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, > Dänk 666 <dank420@rocketmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 14, 7:46 pm, "5511 Dead, 644 since 1/20/09" <d...@dead.com> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:28:29 -0500, Eddie Haskell wrote: >> > > "Dänk 666" <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote in message >> > > news:afdbb3eb-2516-4ce2-8466- >> > >> > fabd78d8a...@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... >> > >> > >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know >> > >> it" by subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to >> > >> provide the public with in-depth reporting that truthful and >> > >> unbiased. >> > >> > > Oh, my god. A liberal newspaper bailout. >> > >> > > -Eddie Haskell >> > >> > Danky is snivelling about a trial balloon the admin sent up last >> > January and promptly abandoned because there was a generally negative >> > reaction. >> >> And if Bush had sent up a similar 'trial balloon,' you would still be >> having conniption fits about it today.
Actually, the administration DID send local news stations two minute "segments" representing the administration point of view and encouraged local stations to run them as news. A disgracefully high number did.
> > Congress and Bush did subsidise journalism. Bush's interference with PBS > had more to do documentaries and not the daily and weekly journalism.
Eddie Haskell
2010-06-15 14:02:54 EST
"D\ufffdnk 666" <dank420@rocketmail.com> wrote in message news:e0abc976-d043-47d0-8198-cbf6b5c9e238@q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com... On Jun 14, 7:46 pm, "5511 Dead, 644 since 1/20/09" <d...@dead.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:28:29 -0500, Eddie Haskell wrote: > > "D\ufffdnk 666" <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote in message > > news:afdbb3eb-2516-4ce2-8466- > > fabd78d8a...@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > > >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" by > >> subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the > >> public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. > > > Oh, my god. A liberal newspaper bailout. > > > -Eddie Haskell > > Danky is snivelling about a trial balloon the admin sent up last January > and promptly abandoned because there was a generally negative reaction.
> And if Bush had sent up a similar 'trial balloon,' you would still be > having conniption fits about it today.
Damn good point. Him, along with the entire MSM.
-Eddie Haskell
Dänk_666?=
2010-06-15 20:25:32 EST
On Jun 15, 12:51 am, rfisc...@sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: > Sage2 <wisdom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Jun 14, 2:01 pm, D nk 666 <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > >> The Obama administration proposes to "save journalism as we know it" > >> by subsidizing newspapers and other media, ostensibly to provide the > >> public with in-depth reporting that truthful and unbiased. > > >> Here is an example of how government-subsidized journalism works in > >> Mexico: > > > Propaganda paid for by any Government is merely that ; " > >PROPAGANDA " !! > > Subsidizing journalism is not paying for propaganda.
Yes it is, since journalists who report negative things about the government or the ruling party will see their subsidies cut off. Subsidizing journalism turns journalists into whores.
Back to Mexico. The Mexican government used to subsidize newsprint (the paper used to print newspapers), and had a monopoly on its production. Newspapers that reported on government corruption saw their supply of newsprint cut off.
There is no need to subsidize journalism, since there has always been a market for accurate information on current events. The advertiser- sponsored model has been a failure; as people came to expect to receive news for free, the quality declined accordingly. While major newspapers still provide excellent reporting, they can't compete with advertiser-sponsored cable news channels such as Fox and MSNBC, and they certainly can't expect to charge for their newspapers and websites when pirates repost their articles to the Internet where everyone can read them for free.
When you buy a copy of the New York Times, you are paying for the services of hundreds of investigative reporters whose jobs are to listen to all sides of a story and dig up facts and determine who is telling the truth. When you watch MSNBC for free, you are listening to one side of a story, the side that General Electric wants you to hear. Sometimes General Electric may not have an opinion on a particular subject, so defers to MSNBC's corporate sponsors. Naturally, MSNBC never reports anything negative about GE or its sponsors. And this is the crap you leftards want to subsidize.