Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

The Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop, this past Tuesday, for the media elite, including Rupert Murdoch. From the Associated Press  comes this quote by way of Brietbart:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government is wading into deliberations over the future of journalism as printed newspapers, television stations and other traditional media outlets suffer from Americans’ growing reliance on the Internet.

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. click for story

This looks like the first step to a more social socialized internet … one that might allow big media to pose as a form of non-profit in order to obtain government grants. Then we can recognize that not only do we have a big media bunch that is in bed with big goverment, but we now have a state press and other medium that will certainly kowtow to big government.

Well, we say, “There’s still the blogs that will owe nothing to big government.”  Don’t be so sure that big government and big media won’t look at the lowly blogger ensconced in his or her bedroom office and  and say, “checkmute.” In other words, go away you bother me, and you are not relevant unless you happen to be a clone of  ”Huffington,” “Daily Kos,” or some other left leaning blog.

Don’t forget the Federal Communications Commission has it own agenda that will likely goose step with its sister agency, the Federal Trade Commission. We forgot to mention another “big,” and that is Big Labor. With the new edict from Labor Secretary Solis you can bet that an opaque shield will be thrown over the actions of Big Labor and its protector, the United State Department of Labor.

No one (as far as I know) has mentioned the bits and pieces of foreign media operating in the United States.  Let’s assume that they will be beneficiaries of America’s largess.  What a bunch of bull butter!

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