Government-Funded U.S. Media?

Ratings of the Leftist DEM/MSM continue to sag.

Dobbs left, and CNN plunged.

In the meantime, FoxNews is up 7%.

Newspapers are still hemorrhaging readers.

As a result, the AP writes:

With the media business in a state of economic distress as audiences and advertisers migrate online, the Federal Trade Commission began a two-day workshop Tuesday to examine the profound challenges facing media companies and explore ways the government can help them survive (my emphasis).

Henry Waxman -- this should come as no shock -- thusly concludes:

Acknowledging that talk of government support for the press raises "red flags," Waxman stressed it is not the job of Congress to "deny the evolution of media."

But "as we look at these various solutions, government's going to have to be involved in one way or the other," he warned (again, my emphasis).

The DEM (what I term the Defeatist, Elitist Media) are already nose-deep in the arse of the Obama Administration.

Is there anyone besides myself, reading the above, who doesn't feel a massive chill running up and down their spine when our government begins making noise like it needs to fiscally shore up (read: control) the United States media?

And this support -- do you wonder, as do I, if such fiscal support will somehow manage to assist venues such as Conservative Talk Radio? Fox News? Conservative news and information sites on the internet?

This is nothing more than the Governmental Toe being dipped into the Media Control waters.

Any rational, thinking American should be sickened and appalled today at the implications here.

BZ