The other day P.J. penned a (mostly) satirical call for print journalism to be bailed out by the government. Today government officials in Connecticut say that bailing out local newspapers sounds like a fine thing to do.
Two of Connecticut’s top elected officials, Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, said they don’t want to see local newspapers close and would be interested in taking part in a bipartisan effort to save them.
“That’s something that we’d be more than willing to explore,” said Rell, a Republican.
“I’d be happy to take part,” said Blumenthal, the state’s top-ranking Democrat.
Thus reports The Register Citizen — one of the paper’s hoping to be saved by those same officials. The Journal Register Co. has said it needs to close a sale on the papers by the end of January or it will be forced to shutter them.
Bonus Observation: Don’t look now but TV networks are noticing that their business model no longer works. First step, FOX is blowing off Saturday morning programming in favor of infomercials. This’ll end well.
Update: Jazz clubs in San Fran want a $2.4m. bailout from city government. Jazz clubs people.
