ANALYSIS – Is Trump regretting his VP pick? Will Trump tell Vance he is “fired”? When former President Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance as his vice presidential candidate soon after surviving an assassination attempt, some called the choice bold and a doubling down on Trumpism.
I said he could help Trump make his case in 2024 and be the GOP standard bearer in 2028. Still, I also said I would have preferred Trump had picked a woman, and that I had some reservations about Vance as VP, including his youth and inexperience.
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ANALYSIS – Is Trump regretting his VP pick? Will Trump tell Vance he is “fired”? When former President Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance as his vice presidential candidate soon after surviving an assassination attempt, some called the choice bold and a doubling down on Trumpism.
I said he could help Trump make his case in 2024 and be the GOP standard bearer in 2028. Still, I also said I would have preferred Trump had picked a woman, and that I had some reservations about Vance as VP, including his youth and inexperience.
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Newspapers are dying and have been for the last 25 years or so. Their cause(s) of death are many and multiplying. But a major culprit is the internet, which ripped the business models of press barons to shreds and exposed the papers for what they were: sclerotic, would-be monopolists whose lock on local advertising fed both their bottom lines and the arrogance.
But the cash-starved husks of several newspaper chains refuse to formally die and go away. Instead, they are making last ditch efforts to get government to rescue them. And the primary means of doing that is for governments to pass laws requiring tech companies (a favorite bogeyman of failed business and blinkered politicians everywhere) to pay them (handsomely) for the privilege of linking to their reporting.
Major efforts are underway to create a media welfare program in Congress, and some states. As Prof. Jeff Jarvis writes, these efforts are the latest chapter in newspapers' long war against any and all competitors. But they also seek to cure one perceived problem with solutions that makes matters much worse for everyone (except newspapers). And at bottom, none of the proposed welfare programs address a fundamental issue about newspapers and (potential) news readers:
Yet that's the path newspapers have chosen…because self-reflection is much more difficult than mau-mauing state legislators into erecting a welfare system that benefits the very few (and very privileged) at taxpayers' expense.
Jarvis also notes that the California proposal would not benefit small or new news outlets. Only the big outlets (many owned by hedge funds) would truly reap the benefits of the new cartel.
Which is both appalling and revealing. Setting aside whether a particular newspaper is a left-wing rag and a right-wing screed, all of them are businesses looking for a financial lifeline (now that the cash cows in the local ad market have bolted for more responsive, more affordable, and more measurable pastures).
Don't weep for the newspapers looking for state handouts. They milked their local markets for decades, and fought new technologies and means of delivering the news with everything they could muster. Their bills for their decades of indifference, arrogance, and stupidity are coming due. Time for them to settle up.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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