Originally Posted By: the G-man of Zur-En-Arrh
Newspapers Help Obama, Obama Helps The Newspapers

  • "A source of mine called to say that Obama's reached out to some newspaper publishers about giving papers a tax break in the stimulus package."

    Soren Dayton describes it, via Twitter: "Obama pays off his base: The media."

    Chip Saltsman's best moment in the RNC Chairman debate last Monday was describing our current policy shift, in which winners and losers are set by the market, to a world where winners and losers are set by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid.


Critics Say Newspaper Bailout May Invite Gov't Control

No shit. Look at the auto companies and AIG. Those companies took bailout money and now the government is starting to talk about how that gives it the right to exert greater and greater control over them.

Why would newspapers be any different in the long run?