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2009-05-13 Economy

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-13 11:20|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Boeing and Timber don't pretend to act as a check on government power. Bought-and-paid-for whores, now

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-05-13 11:48|| 2009-05-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Separation of Media and State? Will the press ever bite the hand that's feeding them?

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-13 12:42|| 2009-05-13 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Democracy, the most beautiful and ephemeral of political systems.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-05-13 12:47|| 2009-05-13 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 this may be pretty much a symbolic act

The newspapers in Washington State don't have much in the way of profits to tax.

Posted by lord garth 2009-05-13 13:03|| 2009-05-13 13:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Pravda means 'truth' in Russian
Izvestiya means 'delivered messages, a.k.a., the news'

There was a whispered joke in Russia in the 80s that "there is not much news in truth and not much truth in the news"

Posted by lord garth 2009-05-13 13:06|| 2009-05-13 13:06|| Front Page Top

#6 They'd never get away with that in Kaliphornia...not that our newspapers are any better than Washington's. But with the budget about $12 billion under water and their efforts to raise taxes for everybody else it just wouldn't fly. We already recalled one governor and we're just about ready to recall another.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-13 14:25|| 2009-05-13 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Tax breaks for stagecoach manufacturers and blacksmiths! An important part of American culture is fast disappearing and we do nothing! NOTHING!!

Posted by tu3031 2009-05-13 14:33|| 2009-05-13 14:33|| Front Page Top

#8 The graphic is grossly distorted; there's some overlap.

In real life, there's NONE. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-13 15:36|| 2009-05-13 15:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Next thing you know the newspapers will demand an earned income tax credit.

Posted by Iblis 2009-05-13 17:52|| 2009-05-13 17:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Why not just combine all the newspapers into one? We could name it 'Truth'

But competition is the American Way! So we would want a second one. It could be named "News". But then some smart-ass or refugee from the fUSSR would snark that "In Truth there is no news and in News there is no truth".

Posted by SteveS 2009-05-13 18:58|| 2009-05-13 18:58|| Front Page Top

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