OPINION:
The Washington Times front-page story on journalism groups going to Congress is precious (“Journalists call on Congress to save them from Google, Facebook,” Web, June 11). Where were all these concerned groups when the large “newspaper” groups started buying up the little weeklies and putting those hardworking locals out of jobs?
Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center is right when he says “[T]he irony is pretty strong.” Mr. Gainor raises the 800-pound gorilla in the room when he asks, “How are we to trust the news media, which we already know are really biased … ?”
If the mainstream newspaper media (and broadcast media, too, for that matter) cannot exit in today’s world, maybe it is time they do not exist at all. Times change and so do industries. Journalists would be and have been the first to harangue the bailout of any other industry because of obsolescence.
I used to really enjoy reading small weekly newspapers and read three papers each morning. But it is up to them to adapt, adopt or say adios. Taxpayer money should not support them — and supporting them is exactly what will happen as soon as Congress gets involved.
JAMES P. KOUT
Bowie, Md.
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