John Kerry Wants to Rescue the Newspaper Industry

  Will the next taxpayer bailout  be for the newspaper industry? John Kerry wants to begin senate hearings to address the problems in the newspaper industry.

  Here is part of a statement that Senator Kerry made to the Boston Globe:

I am committed to your fight, committed to your industry and committed to ensuring that the vital public service newspapers provide does not disappear,

  What does that statement mean and how will he ensure that newspapers don’t disappear? There is only one way for the government to save the newspapers. By throwing cash at them, by bailing them out. 

  We have already seen the president stick his nose into the once free market and begin the hiring and firing of once private sector jobs. We have also seen the president stick his nose in a once private company and demand that company merge with a foreign company.

  If we assume that John Kerry is talking about the next bailout, the bailout of the newspapers and we use the president’s history of becoming involved with the daily business of private companies than we can assume the same will be true if the newspapers get bailed out.

  Will the president then be able to dictate to the newspapers their content? Is that too much of a stretch based on his meddling in the automakers industry? I don’t think so. In essence we will have government controlled and run newspapers.

  The newspaper industry is a dying industry, that is the fact. For better or worse the internet is where people get the majority of their news and there is nothing that the government can do about it. They can pump bailout money after bailout money at the problem but there is no solution. It will be wasted money. (Wasted unless the ultimate goal is for the government  to control the newspapers and their content, then it will be mission accomplished.)

  I don’t want to see newspapers die out, but I do know one thing. If I had a choice between no newspapers and government run newspapers I would choose no newspapers.