Newspapers under a democracy

On March 25, 2009, Robbie Cooper, from Urban Grounds, posted a blog called "How could the newspaper industry get any worse? Put the government in charge of it,". Cooper brings up the topic of newspapers getting help from the government. Cooper used minimal words to express his own thoughts but rather quotes from two other blogs. I believe that the purpose of this method was to give him some one-sided support and credibility. Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey are effective in showing support for Cooper's claim, but do they also give credibility? Cooper failed at using first party knowledge, using evidence from another blog can easily be twisted from the original context of the article. His intended audience is for fellow conservatives. He rallies his claim with the negative adjectives such as beholden and smitten in his sentence, "a media even more beholden to and smitten with Obama and Liberals than they currently are." This was found in his opening paragraph to awaken conservative passion against the obama administration. Now, for his claim he states that having "US Government subsidise the media that is supposed to hold politicians accountable is a dangerous idea." He speaks of a free nation and the importance of the media being free. Of course, I agree that the media should be able to write what it sees and not be forced to only cover one favored side. The thing is, I would rather have a media then not have it at all. Cooper believes that individuals can cover the news enough that we do not need journalist, and if they go into bankruptcy then let them. Now, if he thinks that he can cover the news by his blog then our nation would be in worse trouble. Actually, this proposed bill will only allow newspapers tax breaks. It will not monitor what they report on, the one down side would be that newspapers can no longer endorse political candidates, which would hurt Patrick Rose's campaign. I do not see tax breaks as such a threat to our freedom of knowledge, but in Cooper's defense, maybe newspapers could think of a way to raise money and get through this short-term recession.