According to the Washington Post, the Federal Trade Commission wants to change how the Internet delivers media and news by “reinventing journalism“.
What is the reason the FTC wants to do this?
“There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for commercial journalism,”
Sounds more like they want to take control of the Internet to help their buddies in big media keep from going out of business!
The mainstream media, newspapers and radio are getting hit hard from freelance media journalists like Drudgereport and other news sites run by the public sector. Freelance journalists, who report because they love to share information not because a company pays their salary and have to make quota, are causing big media to rethink how they report the news. Their answer to changing the way they do business? Get BIG PAPA, Uncle Sam, to change laws in their favor so they can go about business as usual. They don’t want to change. They like things just as they were before the Internet started taking a huge bite out of their profits.
The FTC is in bed with the mainstream media. It’s obvious and it doesn’t take a well-seasoned card-carrying reporter to see through the facade.
The FTC has suggested taxing sites sharing reported news (news aggregators) “so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers”.
Big Brother and Big Media pledged to be married! Or maybe we are already to late for the wedding. They may have already tied the knot!
KByte