{"id":648,"date":"2009-03-24T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-03-24T19:41:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:41:13","slug":"things_we_need_to_avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Things We Need To Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Reuters.com<\/a>, Senator Benjamin Cardin introducted a bill in Washington today to allow newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.  According to the article:<\/p>\n

“Cardin’s Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow newspapers to operate as nonprofits for educational purposes under the U.S. tax code, giving them a similar status to public broadcasting companies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Under this arrangement, newspapers would still be free to report on all issues, including political campaigns. But they would be prohibited from making political endorsements.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Advertising and subscription revenue would be tax exempt, and contributions to support news coverage or operations could be tax deductible.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What are these people smoking?  Newspapers would be prohibited from making political endorsements!!!  The current media is biased toward liberalism, I understand that, but I do not want to see anyone’s free speech limited.  I think churches should be able to make political endorsements!  If any organization has a set of beliefs, values, or principles, they should be able to endorse the candidate that most closely resembles those beliefs, values or principles.  This is not rocket science.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the reason the newspapers are in trouble is that they have lost credibility.  For example, most newspapers reported the hundred or so people driven around in ACORN-funded buses to AIG executives homes last weekend.  How many of you heard about the six thousand people who gathered in Orlando, Florida, for a tea party protesting the governments current fiscal problems?  If the newspapers did their job, people would buy them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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