DemocracyRules Offers to Buy Cox Newspapers

By DemocracyRules

Apparently the Cox newspaper chain can’t afford a DC Bureau anymore.  No problem, I’ll do it!  I can do it myself, starting next Monday. I’ll run the whole DC bureau myself.  In fact, I hereby offer to buy the entire Cox newspaper chain for one dollar ($1).  Call me, we’ll do lunch.

Here’s my plan
(1) Get rid of all existing staff.  If they knew what they were doing, they would have done it by now.

(2) Hire a bunch of bloggers who are interested, and can write well.  No need to move to Washington, you can live wherever you want.

(3) Don’t duplicate any news story the big networks are covering.  If AP, Reuters, or the other news outlets are covering a story, it will be turned to garbage under their fingertips.

(4) Instead, for the big stories, run counter-stories, explaining how the other news people are lying their heads off.

(5) Mainly, write stories that focus on good news, including military advances and achievements, successful enforcement of the Constitution, good things that some politicians do, laws that work, policies that encourage self-reliance, citizen initiatives that work, viable plans to shrink government, and new ways to accelerate business growth.

(6) Get experts to write columns for free.  I know it’s a bizarre idea.  Most columns are written by pundits who have only a passing idea about their topics.  My columnists would include people like Bolton, Claudia Rosett, Gina Cobb, petroleum experts from Oil Week, economists like Captain Capitalism, etc.  People who can write and who know what they're talking about.

I wouldn’t pay them much, but they could push their books and other things like crazy in their columns.  That’s fine with me, a good columnist is usually a good book author.  They can even bind their columns together and publish those.

(7) No spin, no lies, no editorializing, no leftism, no garbage.  Just true and interesting stories, period.

(8) Put the bloggers and columnists on webcams and take over a TV channel.

I’ll have a blast, and make a mint. C’mon, let’s do it.

Pro Patria

Comments

[batman]

Cox also, eh? Earlier this weekend, I read on a blog elsewhere, that some blue state, back east, was thinking of "bailing out" some local rag. Wouldn't that be like Pravda, or Tass, or NPR, or CPB/PBS etc.? Ponder why we don't hear journalists complaining about 1st amendment when it comes to state bailouts, as they line up at the public trough?

We dumped the Trib this month. In the best interest of this country: It was no longer proper use of the tree. And, I used to make use of those little blue keep-dry bags for "doggie clean-up." I mused, one of the few products that gets used TWICE for its intended purpose. Not that long ago: When hawks were true blue, COMMUNity activISTS were reds, the Trib was the lone conservative voice of reason. Ah, change. The "Land of Lincoln" is now the "Land of The One."

Perhaps, Colonel Robert McCormick, is spinning in his grave: About the state of his country, the state of what was once the "Worlds Greatest Newspaper" and the general state of journalism; All causes to which he was so dedicated. May he rest in peace. But, the "Fourth Estate," has become the "Fifth Column." So, when we need to wash the windows this spring, we'll just have to forgo the newsprint, for the chamois. At least now, it's better for the country.

[KeithH]

I'm in! I'll even kick in 50 cents, of 49 cents if you want to maintain control. :-)