When Newpapers Ruled the World

When Newpapers Ruled the World

What is the purpose of a newspaper?

Do newspapers cover current issues that involve more than a difference of philosophy, or political viewpoints?

And are the financial powers behind them control national governments and multinational corporations; promote world government through control of media, foundation grants, and education; and controls and guides the issues of the day?

If this so, then they control most print news options available to the public, thus having done all these things to promote the "New World Order" have controlled public thought for over seventy years.

Baron M.A. Rothschild wrote, "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."

Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution...if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Georgetown professor Dr. Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor while at Georgetown) wrote about the goals of the investment bankers who control central banks: "... nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole... controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."

Can this also be said of newspapers?

Martin Demgen: “For the first decade of this century I represented newspaper workers who were members of the Minnesota Newspaper Guild - primarily editorial (newsroom) employees at Minnesota's two largest papers. Thus, I was an intimate witness to the demise of large, metro papers across the country. Along with the loss of tens of thousands of well paying, professional jobs, there is an even greater tragedy for the common welfare of our people.”

“Content has been lost as well as accountable sourcing. For most of our lives we could turn on the CBS evening news and hear "as reported today in the Toledo Blade" or "according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer" as the lead in to countless stories. When those reporters, photographers and columnists go away, including many that work for the major networks, then the remaining sources; Fox, Drudge and the legions of reporters who matter on the internet can say anything with impunity to a public without the time or the where with all or the inclination to find the truth if, indeed, it is actually available. Of course newspapers tended to have a political slant but this bias tended to be kept on the op/ed page and you could trust the double sourced, fact checked stories that you read. The current trend has and will continue to diminish our democracy.”

Kevin Magnuson: “Remember, there's more to a newspaper than what the ink put on the paper. Newspapers are a part of American history. if we should down size or get rid of a local paper all together we've not only gotten rid of a part of America but also a part of all of us.”

Mark Curtis: “The problem with newspapers is that they are slow.

Although I still have my paper delivered every day at 11 am, I find myself reading versions of news stories that I know have already been updated three or four times on the internet. And, sadly, this is especially true of some of the most critical news. For instance, a natural disaster, a breaking human interest story, political and armed conflict... all have usually evolved beyond the ability of the newspaper to keep up.

Newspapers are now filling the role of an archive rather than a source of new information. They are good for stories that have a perceived ending like sports scores, decisions at local meetings, local event summaries, who was honored at such-and-such gathering.

In addition, newspapers' traditional proprietary product, the long-term, investigative reporting to produce a hard-hitting expose' has been usurped by the internet as well. Instead of one reporter slogging through facts and following up on leads, hundreds of online readers, bloggers, etc. can contribute to the development of a story in real time.

Finally, a major problem with the newspaper is the physical constraints of the product itself. Printed media are governed by an advertising-to-content ratio. Look at any media kit and you will almost always find a statement from the publisher stating that they follow a formula. In addition, if all of the advertising and content that needs to get out to the public happens to fill five pages of print, something important must be cut or edited so that everything fits into four pages. I can assure you that the ads will never be cut for they are the lifeblood.

In electronic media, there is no such thing as a "page". Therefore stories can be as long or short as they need to be to tell the news in its entirety.

While I mourn the decline of the newspapers as a romantic concept like the family farm and surreys with fringes on top, the torch is surely passing.”

Lori Linder: “Newspapers are slow as Mark says, but if you want a more in-depth account, it serves the purpose. TV news, in my opinion, is like reading the headlines of a newspaper. And much, much too often TV is WRONG! I've been at an event numerous times only to watch the news anchors or reporters tell about the event and it's not even close. I like holding a newspaper in my hands. I like that it's always laid out the same - major news on the front and world news inside the first section (Star Tribune), editorial page on the left side, obituaries, a separate Business section, Sports, and my favorite - Variety. It's much harder to find all those stories online. If I want lots of opinions or perspectives of a particular story, I'll look online at a variety of sources, but overall, give me a newspaper to hold in my hand.”

Newspapers are the voice of local society and neighborhoods

J. Edward Grimsley retired in 1995 as chairman of the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editorial Board; “Today the public needs the services of alert and aggressive newspapers more than ever. Governments have become so large, so complex and so intrusive that even the most intelligent citizen will need help in comprehending their scope, their policies and their actions. But comprehend citizens must if they are to use the most powerful governing tool they possess — their right to vote — constructively and effectively. If Jefferson considered newspapers indispensable in his simpler era, what would he think of their role today?”

“In addition to the thoroughness of its coverage, the newspaper has another asset of supreme importance. It coveys a reassuring sense of responsibility. It is a highly visible community institution that clearly identifies the people responsible for its content — its owners, its publisher, its editors and its reporters. That their own personal reputations can be affected by their performances is a compelling reason for them to maintain the integrity of the newspaper's operations.”

“Consider the justification for this viewpoint. Through the years, newspapers have served as the eyes and ears and often the voice and conscience of the people. They do for average citizens what it is impractical for average citizens to do for themselves: monitor the intricate activities of local, state and national governments; search the nooks and crannies of city hall, courthouses, state houses, Congress and the White House for evidence of corruption, misconduct and egregious incompetence; evaluate the complexities of powerful businesses and cultural institutions and analyze social and economic conditions that can profoundly affect the commonweal. Through their editorials and opinion columns they participate in public debates on issues of the day. Most will invite their readers to become involved by, among other ways, writing letters to the editor.”

Read J. Edward Grimsley’s entire article http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/oped/2012/jun/29/tdopin02-grimsley-jeffersonian-ideals-necessitate--ar-2021212

America's Greece By Ben Shapiro

America's Greece By Ben Shapiro

June 14, 2012

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In California, the mayor of a major city has decided that it's time to renegotiate union pensions, which are bankrupting the municipality; more specifically, he wants to raise the retirement age. The governor of the state wants to revamp the welfare system, forcing people to get back to work within two years rather than four. The state government has worked with the California Highway Patrol to implement furloughs amounting to a 5 percent pay cut. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Unified School District has forced teachers unions to accept 10 furlough days, amounting to a 5 percent pay cut.

Here's the crazy thing: All of the governmental officials are Democrats.

Reality has smashed the Golden State across the face with an iron fist. In fact, all of the measures that Democrats are taking in California will surely fail — they're half-measures. The state suffers from a $16 billion deficit and has over $500 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's pension reform wouldn't even make a dent. Gov. Jerry Brown's welfare reform would save just $880 million — and meanwhile, recent studies show that $69 million in welfare cash is spent in casinos, cruise ships and Hawaii every year. The new deal with the CHP won't touch the CHP pension problem, which amounts to more than $3 billion per year. The LAUSD's furloughing will save a few bucks but won't touch its $390 million deficit.

California, in short, is royally screwed. But this is what happens when a state Californicates itself.

For several decades, the state of California has ignored all calls to fiscal responsibility. Instead, its voters have elected big-spending liberal after big-spending liberal to the state legislature. Even now, Gov. Brown enjoys an approval rating of approximately 43 percent, and a huge majority of California voters support Brown's proposed massive tax hikes.

But the state's economy is upside-down.

Businesses have been fleeing in droves. There's nobody left to pay the taxes anymore. And so California is left in a peculiar political situation: The folks who elect politicians aren't the folks who pay the taxes. And the folks who pay the taxes will soon be headed to Texas. What happens when a bankrupt state tries to hand out nonexistent money from absent taxpayers?

Utter chaos.

We've already seen what happens when major American cities such as Detroit collapse. The earners take off; the moochers stay and vote themselves benefits. With a smaller and smaller group of people paying for those benefits, the burden becomes too much to bear; soon, there's no money left at all. The city dies.

California is dying. Even Democrats recognize it, which is why they're trying European-style, tepid austerity measures.

And yet, on a national level, Democrats continue to lie to the American public. They suggest that if the federal government pursues the same policies that got California into this mess — all the way down to California's new $68 billion idiotic high- speed rail — the country will somehow perform precisely contrary to California.

It's nonsense. But it does suggest one thing: The Democrats, on a national level, don't have America's best interests at heart. Democrats in California never had California's best interests at heart; they merely had their own political interests at heart. The results show it: a bankrupt state, utterly dominated by Democrats. Democratic legislators are fat and happy; citizens are told to eat cake.

President Obama and his Democratic cronies now want to follow California's lead. The rest of the country, however, can look at California and see a domestic Greece at hand. A few more states like it and there won't be anyone left to pay the freight. The United States becomes the European Union.

Ben Franklin " When people find they can vote themselves money, it will be the end of our Republic"