Comments on: Rick Edmonds predicts a lot of coal in newspapers’ stockings http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/12/rick-edmonds-predicts-a-lot-of-coal-in-newspapers-stockings/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:42:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jim Gogek http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/12/rick-edmonds-predicts-a-lot-of-coal-in-newspapers-stockings/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Jim Gogek Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:36:02 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=618#comment-573 What we need is a bailout for newspapers. The auto industry is vital to the economy, but newspapers are vital to the democracy. And this bailout will only pay to help transport newspapers wholly into the digital age. Taxpayers who love democracy should want to help one of the most important liberty institutions in the land leave the dead tree era and join the Internet age. http://jgogek.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/bailout-for-newspapers-just-as-auto-industry-and-citibank-are-vital-to-economy-newspapers-are-vital-to-democracy/ What we need is a bailout for newspapers. The auto industry is vital to the economy, but newspapers are vital to the democracy. And this bailout will only pay to help transport newspapers wholly into the digital age. Taxpayers who love democracy should want to help one of the most important liberty institutions in the land leave the dead tree era and join the Internet age.

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