Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) introduced a bill in the Senate to give newspapers non-profit status. The bill would make newspapers free from taxation as a plan to save the usually democratic friendly newspaper industry. Newspapers continue to lose to internet and other news outlets. It seems to me Congress is picking and choosing which industries to save and which ones to lose. With no disrespect to my fellow writers, newspapers seem like dinosaurs to me. They don’t fit into our fast-paced lifestyles, and of course there is the green argument, which is rarely applied to the industry as long as they print liberal friendly stories. I’d rather have cheap gas than a newspaper. If CO2 is the problem, which I don’t believe, then we shouldn’t be chopping down trees so the liberals can share their rhetoric will millions daily.

"We are losing our newspaper industry," Cardin said in a statement. "The economy has caused an immediate problem, but the business model for newspapers, based on circulation and advertising revenue, is broken, and that is a real tragedy for communities across the nation and for our democracy."

I think the real problem here is Democrats like Cardin see a traditional Democratic rhetorical tool dying as more conservatives have discovered they have a medium to present their voice with, when often it was denied by an editor. Right Mr. Cardin?

Of course, Mr. Cardin says newspapers would be forced to remain neutral and could no longer endorse candidates, but there’s always an exception to every rule. As they continue to fail under non-profit status and there becomes talk to nationalize the newspaper industry, we may never really know the truth behind what our leaders are doing. That just scares me. If the newspaper industry’s time has come to pass on, then let it pass. Let’s not pour billions into saving something that is no longer relevant.