Round One: Bellowing idealogue Rush Limbaugh versus the alternative media infrastructure
And so it begins. Some of President Obama’s “progressive” buddies are demanding “an alternative media infrastructure, one that is insulated from the commercial pressures that brought us to our current crisis.”
Free Press, a “media reform group” allied with the Obama administration, is condemning the “bellowing ideologues” on the air and complaining that “The entire dial is empty of local news in many communities.”
Translation: Call the security guards, because there’s an angry protest brewing outside the FCC headquarters right now. They’ll undoubtedly moan and wail that “local news” is woefully deficient at any station with the temerity to run Rush Limbaugh.
Accuracy In Media outlines the rest of the socialist agenda:
As part of the proposed new “media infrastructure,” Free Press is calling for a $50 billion “Public Media Trust Fund” to underwrite the creation of new jobs for journalists and the use of the existing federal AmeriCorps program “to include journalistic activities as part of its mission” in the form of “journalism positions” and “journalism projects.” AmeriCorps is a federally-funded national and community service agency.
The group is also urging a direct federal bailout of liberal media institutions, declaring that “The Department of Labor could design a program aimed at keeping reporters employed at existing news organizations or at new outlets.” Free Press explains, “If the government were to subsidize 5,000 reporters at $50,000 per year, the cost would be $250 million annually, a relatively modest sum given the billions coming out of Washington.”
In addition to the $50-billion “Public Media Trust Fund,” another one of the proposals from the Free Press group is a $50-million “government-seeded innovation fund for journalism,” described by Craig Aaron of Free Press as “a taxpayer-supported venture capital firm that invests in new journalism models.”
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Source: Accuracy In Media
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Yiou can’t make this up.