Congressional hoax? Lie? Mis-information? Just dumb (as usual)?

[Guest]

Congress is putting forth a bill to rescue faltering newspapers. They say the economy is affecting their very ability to survive. Here is the article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52N67F20090324

In a previous post I indicated I ran a company that was a supplier of automation for newspapers, with lead US market share and second place world wide. It has ALWAYS been a known that as the digital world unfolded the demise of print (in the majority of newpapers) was inevitable. What is happening with the newspaper industry is what happened to video tapes and buggy whips....new....much more effective technology.

For Congress to step in and try to counter the inevitable only shows their ignorance. Another throw money at it program, by the incompetents in Congress.

Write your representatives and tell them to not support this stupid bill.:cus::censored:

BTK

[Guest]

And if you look at the papers that are failing, losing readership and ad money, it's the one's who support the liberal political views. People want news, not opinions. When a paper starts slanting the news to support their editorial views they lose there support. In DC there are two papers, the Washington Times and the Washington Post. One is growing and one is dieing. The Post is on the verge of bankruptcy. They slant the news so bad that you can't believe a word you read. So people are canceling their subscriptions. Let them sink, they caused there own problems.And if our congress tries to bail them out, we need to throw them all out. Need to anyway, but just one more reason.

[Guest]

What is happening to newspapers is exactly what is happening to the Post Office. The electron has replaced ink. Nobody writes letters anymore, either.

It's called technological evolution. That's also why we no longer have town criers.

Next will be the weekly news magazines with open hands.

At least the National Inquirer is still keeping its market share....