Monday, May 11, 2009

Question of the day...

What happens when a democratic country loses its “free press” and the government provides its funding?

It seems that preparations are being made for several American mainstream media companies to become government entities.

‘Obama told the crowd “Your ultimate success is essential to success of our democracy” before shortly saying “Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.”

He concludes with the line that the problems in the media industry are “problems worth solving,” which sounds an awful lot like the final word that there’s going to be a newspaper bailout.’ Free Republic

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