Democracy Needs a Bailout

By David Sirota

Without a bailout, newspapers will lay off staff, fewer journalists will report important stories, there will be no Fourth-Estate check on state and corporate power, and the country will suffer. So goes the pro-democracy case for government and/or altruistic investors to save the newspaper [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    “Until then, though, the biggest threat to democracy is less the regrettably decimated journalism industry than the disenfranchised public. “

    IMO, the public has been disenfranchised for some time. Gradually the Congress has become a part of the elite money/power class and we have little true representation of the people.

    We don’t need “...the health care system that Congress has” (as John Kerry proposed and Obama is now willing to spend a $trillion of taxpayer money on).

    What we need is for Congress to have the system most of us have now that employee benefits have been left to each of us to provide.

    I want them to try to find an insurer when pre-existing conditions are an issue. I want them to try to find coverage when the much needed meds are dropped.

    I want them to try to get by when half their life savings are being given to the bastards who ran the world’s biggest financial scam are stilll drawing paychecks and bonuses.

    We don’t need reporters, we need vigilantes!

    United States Posted by whattheheck on May 31, 2009 at 5:37 AM
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