Did you know that the government is so concerned about newspapers losing business that they want to help them by imposing a 5% surcharge on consumer electronics? That’s right, one of these days we might pay 5% more for a new stereo, television, iPad, or computer to help the New York Times stay afloat.
That’s bad enough. Even worse: the fulfillment of that old saying, he who pays, has the say. I don’t have much faith, if any, in most old media as it is, and I can’t fathom trusting the NYT or ABC once they are officially being propped up financially by the government.
The Obama gang is worried about the information available to all of us, through New Media, i.e., the internet, cable news, and talk radio. Information they can’t control. Information they don’t want people to know.
As James, at the Reaganite Republican, says, “…the last thing a statist control-freak like Barack Obama needs is an all-out, open competition on the web for the many readers now leaving the MSM in droves… then have them wind-up reading some reactionary, anti-progressive rag like Brietbart or the Reaganite Republican.”
This all sounds like a parody from The Onion, but it’s not. (This administration could put the Onion out of business; the type of over-the-top tongue-in-cheek mocking stories the Onion does are true now.) The FTC is actually discussing this and taking notes and brainstorming all kinds of ways to ultimately control the flow of information and get more taxes from us to boot.
Read the rest of James’ post, and spread the word about this.
