Why are we always so concerned with keeping companies in business. We didn't try to artificially keep wagon wheel business alive when cars were invented. This is absurd, if a company can no longer sell something, sell something else, or die off.
While normally I agree with the idea of making businesses survive and fail on their own I'm a bit more hesitant to agree to letting the news industry fail. I wouldn't want to get all my information from blogs, word of mouth or press releases from the government. Remember most of the stories posted here are from a news source of some sort or another.
If the news agencies failed It would leave a huge information vacuum that the government could fill as it wished. And lets not even think about the quality of the news when it is all done by people without editors or others to put the breaks on unsupported stories. At least right now we can get a view of the truth by reading the extremes and taking the average.
The US (and other civilized countries) are better of with the news agencies then without them. As for newspapers, if you can read you have access to them which gives them an advantage over electronic media.
I can't help but think of the borg here but I will give them the fact that it is rather ingenues.
Hopefully they can generate enough power to do something useful without starving the cell in the future.
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Why are we always so concerned with keeping companies in business. We didn't try to artificially keep wagon wheel business alive when cars were invented. This is absurd, if a company can no longer sell something, sell something else, or die off.
While normally I agree with the idea of making businesses survive and fail on their own I'm a bit more hesitant to agree to letting the news industry fail. I wouldn't want to get all my information from blogs, word of mouth or press releases from the government. Remember most of the stories posted here are from a news source of some sort or another. If the news agencies failed It would leave a huge information vacuum that the government could fill as it wished. And lets not even think about the quality of the news when it is all done by people without editors or others to put the breaks on unsupported stories. At least right now we can get a view of the truth by reading the extremes and taking the average. The US (and other civilized countries) are better of with the news agencies then without them. As for newspapers, if you can read you have access to them which gives them an advantage over electronic media.
I can't help but think of the borg here but I will give them the fact that it is rather ingenues. Hopefully they can generate enough power to do something useful without starving the cell in the future.