Obama Appointee Wants Soviet-styled Media

It’s bad enough the Obama administration has pledged trillions to “bailout” the bankers and has made moves to control business in the private sector. Now they want a Soviet-styled media financed and run by the government.

	Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping “direct government support for public media” and creating licenses to govern news operations.

“Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry,” reports Fox News.

Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping “direct government support for public media” and creating licenses to govern news operations.

“Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off,” she wrote in her parting column on April 9.

You can only imagine how such licenses would govern Infowars and the alternative media.

In the former Soviet Union, Pravda was an organ of the CPSU Central Committee, while Izvestiya was published by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Ms. Brooks is advocating a likewise scheme here in America, formerly a land that respected the idea of an independent press and the First Amendment. She would put an end to all of this once and for all with her suggestion that media be licensed by the state.

Brooks said her authoritarian scheme would help rescue the corporate media from a “death spiral” and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. “[I] can’t imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed,” she wrote.

Why is the corporate media in the process of collapsing? Because a growing number of people get their news from the internet and alternative media sources. Large numbers of people no longer trust the corporate media to tell the truth. Corporate media is a dinosaur that needs to either reinvent itself or go the way of the Brontosaurus.

Instead, this Obama appointee wants to turn the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times (where she worked before joining team Obama) into Izvestiya.

But then the argument is academic. The New York Times and the rest of the corporate media is owned and operated by the same corporatist and Wall Street leviathans that financed and supported the Soviet Union.

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6 Responses to “Obama Appointee Wants Soviet-styled Media”

1. Dan Says:
   April 17th, 2009 at 4:40 am

   And I’m sure we’ll have shameless displays of press restriction… Anna Politkovskaya anyone? Assassinations of Alex Jones, Glenn Beck and the like are bound to begin sometime…

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2. global plantation serf Says:
   April 17th, 2009 at 4:51 am

   The government through the APA and advertisers already owns all of the newspapers. All of the editors are APA editors. This is why here in the U.S. we hear NOTHING about Bilderberg.

   Bilderberg is only the defacto world government where the most powerful people in the world (or their representatives) meet in the most posh surroundings under very heavy guard. It is a HUGE story and you hear NOTHING about it. Get it?

   According to Walter Burien, government owns a huge amount of private stock, so they control the companies that advertise. The advertisers control the newpapers.

   http://cafr1.com/

   You can bet that these companies will never even attempt to offend their controllers.

   “Large numbers of people no longer trust the corporate media to tell the truth.” People want the truth, not some politically-correct spin, and no one likes to be lied to right to their face!

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   Rob the Toad Reply:
   April 17th, 2009 at 5:58 am

   I find it interesting that typing the word “bilderberg” on google search, you get no help in spelling it after “bilde” and the two results they do show up to that point are “bildeburgers” and “bildenbergs” with only a few thousand hits between them. Just an obsevation.

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3. Anger is good Says:
   April 17th, 2009 at 5:15 am

   Government for the government by the government of the government, before Obama.
   Government for the Bankers and wall street, by the bankers and wall street, of the bankers and wall street, after Obama.
   Government control of the freedom of speech, the right to keep and bare arms, anyone else see a pattern here.
   AKA, Shut up sheep, don’t baaaahhhaaaaa too loudly… and don’t you DARE think of standing up against us!

   Stock up, then lock and load people, this is going to be nasty… if they do make a fence around Mexico, it won’t be to keep the Mexican’s out, it will be to keep the American people IN. Anyone else remember the Berlin Wall?

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4. never ending story Says:
   April 17th, 2009 at 5:37 am

   Dont buy the damned rag, then. Rather, they should be used to wrap up bricks with, and mailed off, postage due, to the proper and rightful owners of said rags. muthafuggas

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5. sheepish Says:
   April 17th, 2009 at 6:30 am

   the media is already controlled. interesting bolivia related story at whatdoesitmean.com. best, sheepish

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