"Senators consider options for ailing newspapers; Kerry leads session; fix is not identified" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | May 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers and industry leaders offered some suggestions to help newspapers survive. Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said certain newspapers should be allowed to reconstruct themselves as nonprofits, giving them the same kind of tax breaks churches and public broadcasting entities enjoy.
Advertising and subscription revenue would be tax exempt, and donations tax deductible. Under his bill, newspapers would be free to report on all issues, but they would be prohibited from endorsing political candidates.
So what? All the candidates are from the War Party!
James M. Moroney III, publisher of the Dallas Morning News, called for temporary tax relief for newspapers, allowing them to write off operating losses. Further, he said, Congress should pass legislation ensuring "reasonable compensation" from Internet firms that reproduce or repackage newspaper content - an idea rejected by the online media officials at the hearing.
I'm not paying for your s*** lies, so cut 'em off if you want. It sure would save me a lot of time.
But the fundamental problem, senators and print media advocates said, is that readers are increasingly getting their news from the Web, where advertising revenues have not come close the level needed to support in-depth beat reporting and investigative work.
Like WHAT? Where has the incisive, investigative reporting been? The pension stories? Corrupt judges?
Meanwhile, the BIG LIES -- Al-CIA-Duh, 9/11, the war propaganda -- fills the s*** sheets everyday.
Furthermore, the complete censorship of so many nefarious Zionist deeds explains their duplicitous nature. Type "Madoff" or "Mun" into my blog search and see what comes up, readers.
And while Internet mavens said they were helping newspapers by sending readers to their websites, the print media camp blamed aggregators such as Google for "leeching" the work of professional journalists and putting it on their own sites....
I mean, this is REALLY AMAZING!!!
They are COMPLAINING that I am LINKING their LYING WEBSITES!!!
Fine, I MAY NOT DO THAT ANYMORE, s***ters!!!!
Internet leaders were indignant, pointing out that the trend is toward the Web, and that newspapers need to adapt to 21st-century reality by finding a way to make money off their websites. "What needs to happen is monetizing traffic," said Arianna Huffington, owner and founder of the Huffington Post website.
See ya, Globe. I don't need ya!
Marissa Mayer, a Google vice president, said newspapers also needed to update their systems by marketing individual stories - not the entire newspaper - to readers.
Not worth going there then.
Further, Mayer said, the popular and profitable search engine is doing newspapers a favor by teasing their stories with a few lines of copy, luring the reader to a newspaper website and its own ads.
Yeah, and you see the thanks we get from them.
When Kerry noted that no newspaper was making enough in Web ads to support its reporting and editing staff, Mayer replied, "It's still very early." Kerry shook his head slightly. "It's not early," he said....
No, it is very late for the on-their-deathbed newspapers.
That's what happens when you LIE SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
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