Bailing out the MSM:
  • some local papers in Connecticut are asking for federal help to stay afloat...

    Government shouldn’t be taking ownership stakes in any private enterprise, but even more so in the media. We need a strong, independent national media to inform the citizenry of the abuses of power that occur in government at all levels. That won’t be possible when the government owns the presses, or at the very least has a great deal of financial leverage over the media outlets and their owners.

    No bailouts, especially for newspapers and other media outlets. Let them fail, and let new entrepeneurs enter the market with business models that work. In this case, we may not just be subsidizing failure, but creating propaganda outlets for the governing class. Conspiracy theorists like to rail on about “corporate media”, but government-subsidized media is an actual threat to democracy