Cries Of 'Unfair' Ring Hollow
KQED-FM San Fransisco, along with a wealthy donor, and 120 U.C. Berkeley graduate journalism students plan to start a non profit local news website that has the traditional news media in the area up in arms.
News outlets in the bay area, including the ailing San Fransisco Chronicle, fear they won't be able to compete due to the low overhead of the not for profit news service.
First, I find it laughable that the Chronicle and others see the student journalists as such a genuine threat. Perhaps if they did something more than regurgitate the AP news stories, and push the Democrat's daily talking points, they might feel as though they bring more to the market than the students.
Second, this is the same media who showed little to no concern for the ability of private insurers to compete when they ceaselessly editorialized for not for profit public option healthcare. Now when presented with similar challenges, they cry foul.
Personally, I am still against the public option, but I am for the student run news website. While the public option is a huge intrusion of government into the private sector, the news site is a private sector venture adopting a different business model that results in a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Private sector solutions are better than government ones.
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The Warning by Casey Head is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Well said, Casey. People sometimes wonder how a big business could support left-leaning so-called "anti-business" politicians and groups. The reason is that through graft, the corporation hopes to eradicate its competition via public policy and burdensome regulation. Competition usually comes in the form of newcomers, employing a new paradigm. So what I expect in the follow-up to this story is that legislation will be drafted to protect the media, should this venture gain any traction.
From the comments of the story, this will be the reason given to get politicians involved:
"Without masterful oversight from people with real experience, without incredible mentors, this program really is something of a danger to the quality of local news."
Danger. The only danger is to the "professional" journalists employment status, not to the quality of local news. Judging by the comments, quite a few people are really worried that the quality will be at least good enough.
Heh...
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