Let Them Die & Get Out of the Way

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So why on earth are people talking about a bailout for newspapers? Why is President Obama saying he'd consider it? Why is Congress holding hearings and considering "The Newspaper Revitalization Act" in a bid to save these ailing old rags with tax breaks and other handouts?

Question: how often have you seen the mainstream topshelf press in the USA, let alone scum USA satellites (Ex Italy, France etc ) debate say the question of the mud messiah's birth certificate? Or of the billions gone unaccounted for in Iraq? Answer: ZERO.
Remember when a UK team exposed the fraud behind the footage portraying masses of Iraqis who jeered a falling statue of Saddam Hussein? They got in HUUUGE trouble.
National yahoo news NEVER discussed any of the above, that I know of.
Even more damning is the fact that far-left wing periodicals went absolutely silent, while they'd otherwise delight in exposing US genocide in Vietnam.
Think of it, Obama serenaded the hardcore communist Napolitano, wop head of the Italian State, as if he had been Marconi or Meucci (who invented the telephone).
A true story goes that in the glorious 1960s (?) a prominent Italian politician had to preach to the masses before an election. He was ready on the podium when someone approached him telling him he was urgently needed elsewhere. His reply? "Let me bullshit these idiots the usual way for a while and I am with you"...too bad the microphone line was open.

The old-fashioned press, especially mainstream, was the fertile ground to grow all kinds of political hacks; servile journalists licking the boots of those in power were the chorus that danced while the big and powerful went all lengths to buy, control or setup newspapers.
Black holes in the budget, TV news became a staple of all TV/Radio stations because the otherwise very practical entrepreneurs realized that bullshitting the idiots to sway them could yield bigger returns than more commonplace venues; in turn they'd sell their ability to the highest bidder.
Anchormen, telecasters, soubrettes and columnists all competed to perform the deepest bow and to pen the most disgustingly flattering compliment directed to this or that politician.
And you ask why they won't let the beast die...
Who knows what some entrepreneur with a gun to his temple might be capable of doing...which sordid secrets he may release if denied the help he most needs in this desperate time, he who has 'covered up' for them so many times...