Kerry Tries to Save Boston Globe

Left unsaid at the Free Press summit was the fact that direct federal payments to these papers might enable these unions to avoid taking pay or benefit cuts. Indeed, officials of Free Press said they didn’t think the Cardin bill goes far enough and they want tens of billions of dollars in direct subsidies and payments from the federal government to the liberal media.

clipped from www.newswithviews.com In this context of “saving journalism,” as Free Press described it, the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a May 6 “Future of Journalism” congressional hearing featuring testimony from Maryland Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, who has introduced a “Newspaper Revitalization Act” to rescue failing liberal papers by letting them operate as non-profits. The hearing was said to be the brainchild of Senator John Kerry, the chairman of the subcommittee. One of those failing papers, the Boston Globe, is owned by the New York Times and regularly endorses Kerry’s campaigns and ideas. Ironically, however, another factor in the liberal media decline, and in the Globe’s demise in particular, has been the unreasonable demands of liberal labor unions which normally endorse and finance the campaigns of Democrats for office.