Journalism fund proposal incites cries of media bias

Guest columnist David Scharfenberg suggested in a column for Boston.com that the government should set aside $100 million for a journalism fund to:

seed low-cost, Internet-based news operations in cities large and small – combining vigorous, professional reporting with blogging, video posts, citizen journalism, and aggregation of stories from other sources.

I personally think competition and innovation is the best solution to the industry’s well-documented woes.

But among the commenters who responded to Scharfenberg’s proposal, the consensus thus far is that newspapers don’t deserve taxpayer money because they are too liberal:

At the very least, if any money goes to this Obamaganda, then just as much should go to right-wing, conservative radio. At least it would balance out the “reporting”. –TotalKaosDave

Your media bailout plan is to preserve the liberal disinformation machine … not for our benefit. –Oscarbozach

If the Boston Globe didn’t fill their pages with views everyday from the left and actually covered a news story without the crap they would sell more papers. –BobW19551962

…your business model is failing because of your refusal to adapt to the current business climate coupled with your utterly left wing biased approach to every aspect of politics and economics and I am supposed to, as a taxpayer, bail you out? –DBT3481

God knows the DNC needs it’s propaganda wing in full employment. –bandit09