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Originally Posted by classicman
... unless you plan on a nice big payout from the Gov't.
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LOL....The FTC hosted a series of workshops on the Future of Journalism: “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” and released a pre-draft mid-level staff report exploring a wide range of options from a wide range of perspectives on whether to recommend policy addressing the issue of journalism in the internet age. The report made no recommendations or specific proposals....just seeking and gathering information from interested parties.
At the very least, one should read the FTC statement on the misinformation that has gone viral across the right wing news sites and blogs in the last few weeks, after the report was widely distributed by the FTC.
Through this document, we seek to prompt discussion of whether to recommend policy changes to support the ongoing reinvention of journalism, and, if so, which specific proposals appear most useful, feasible, platform-neutral, resistant to bias, and unlikely to cause unintended consequences in addressing emerging gaps in news coverage.”
The FTC has not endorsed the idea of making any policy recommendation or recommended any of the proposals in the discussion draft.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/journalism.shtm
The danger of the internet? Believing everything you read from partisan sources w/o, at the very least, looking at both sides.
In effect, the FTC held a bunch of brain-storming sessions, invited lots of people with different interests who were encouraged to toss out ideas, compiled all the ideas in a very preliminary draft report, with no comments or recommendations...a common practice in preliminary brainstorming sessions like this.
And suddenly, its government take-over of the media.
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I do like some of the wacky headlines, all of which completely misrepresent the actions of the FTC:
Journalism 'Reinvention' Smacks of Government Control, Critics Say
FTC: We Will Reinvent Journalism By Force
FTC Reinventing Journalism Today’s Watchdogs May Be Tomorrow’s Lap Dogs
FTC Suggests Tax on Consumer Electronics to "Reinvent Journalism"
FTC Floats Drudge Tax
Meet the Commie Behind Obama FTC's Campaign for "Reinventing Journalism"
and of course, the classic American Thinker - Putting the Watchdogs on the Payroll