It’s no secret that many U.S. newspapers are struggling to survive, so it should be no surprise that a Democrat senator has introduced a bill to save them by allowing newspapers to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks. Considering that most of these failing newspapers support liberal agendas and democrat candidates, it’s pretty obvious why a Democrat is running to their rescue.

Do you think the Democrat Congress would be hatching a plan to bailout newspapers if they typically supported Republic candidates and agendas? No way.

Besides, if my business fails, who is gonna bail me out? Nobody! So why do the Democrats want to waste more tax dollars by propping up newspapers that are failing due to poor business and editorial decisions.  Remember, these newspapers are failing for good reasons - - they are failing because fewer people want to read them and they have acquired too much debt living the good life during the good times.  Both reasons can be chalked up to bad management, lousy editorial judgment and self-serving arrogance.

An October 2008 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that, by a margin of 70 percent to 9  percent, American voters “overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election.”  With numbers that lopsided, is it any wonder that newspaper subscriptions are waning? How can you trust a news source that has established bias so convincingly?

Could this bailout be a financial reward for years of loyal service to liberal causes and candidates? Could it be a quid pro quo for future favoritism?  Would this bailout give newspapers an unfair advantage over magazines, radio stations and TV networks, or will the same sweet-heart deal be offered to all failing media outlets that have misread audiences due to a blind allegiance to their own political leanings.

The fact is, newspapers are shedding readers like a leaper sheds skin because they have lost their integrity by opinionizing the news instead of reporting it. Much of what is published today is biased propaganda or low-brow sensationalism.  Who wants to be spoon fed what someone else thinks is important about an issue or a candidate without being given a fair accounting of all the facts? And who wants to be bludgeoned with shock and awe journalism meant to grab your attention when the story has little resemblance to the actual facts?

Objective reporting died a long time ago and now newspapers are dying as well.  I say good riddance.  Let bad business fail and good business grow, including media businesses. That’s the best and fastest path toward better products, lower prices, more accurate reporting, long-term job security AND lower taxes.