[p2p-research] Obama open to newspaper bailout bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

[Paul D. Fernhout]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill
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The president said he is "happy to look at" bills before Congress that would 
give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as 
nonprofit businesses. ...
   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.
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--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/