Friday, January 02, 2009
Finally: A newspaper bailout proposal
I'd prefer slot machines in every newsroom. But I'll take it. ... Hey, the steel industry is asking for a government stimulus package:
I'd prefer slot machines in every newsroom. But I'll take it. ... Hey, the steel industry is asking for a government stimulus package:
“What we are asking,” said Daniel R. DiMicco, chairman and chief executive of the Nucor Corporation, a giant steel maker, “is that our government deal with the worst economic slowdown in our lifetime through a recovery program that has in every provision a ‘buy America’ clause.”Newspapers are made in America too, damn it. ... Newspaper bailout/whatever via Jules, who proposes a more immediate Stalinistic approach toward the industry's problems.
