Yesterday there was this Joint Economic Committee hearing on \u201cThe Future of Newspapers:\u00a0 The Impact on the Economy and Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
So how many of the 20 House and Senate members showed up?\u00a0 Three, according to Joseph Curl of The Washington Times<\/em>, including the Chairwoman, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), who wasn\u2019t even there part of the time.<\/p>\n Maloney and Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-Md) have introduced a bill to allow newspapers to become non-profits, since most of them can\u2019t make a profit, having run off most of their subscribers.\u00a0 No vote has been scheduled.<\/p>\n In a Sacred Heart University poll of attitudes about the media (mentioned on this blog yesterday, in another context), \u201c70.4 percent said they believe the national news media are not responsive to \u2018consumer preferences and market desires.\u2019\u00a0 Nearly 68 percent said they agreed with the statement: \u2018Old-style, traditionally objective and fair journalism is dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n What would it take to resuscitate it?\u00a0 We doubt if it is possible, because most of those running today\u2019s newspapers are too arrogant to think the opinions of readers are of value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday there was this Joint Economic Committee hearing on \u201cThe Future of Newspapers:\u00a0 The Impact on the Economy and Democracy.\u201d So how many of the 20 House and Senate members showed up?\u00a0 Three, according to Joseph Curl of The Washington Times, including the Chairwoman, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), who wasn\u2019t even there part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}