Rubicon: Obama Open to Newspaper Bailout Bill
Update: Worries Public Is Misled by Blogs

Plucked off of Drudge.

This could lead to the full implementation of a state-controlled media and the co-optation of the press by the government Not a damned thing would be any different.

Update: Worrying about blogs letting the public down.

Obama said that good journalism is "critical to the health of our democracy," but expressed concern toward growing tends in reporting -- especially on political blogs, from which a groundswell of support for his campaign emerged during the presidential election.

"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.

Correction: Got ahead of myself and stated, wrongly, he had mentioned blogs in connection with the newspaper bailout. It does not appear that he did so.

posted by Ace at 11:41 PM

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