Ratings of the Leftist DEM/MSM continue to sag.

Dobbs left, and CNN plunged.

In the meantime, FoxNews is up 7%.

Newspapers are still hemorrhaging readers.

As a result, the AP writes:

With the media business in a state of economic distress as audiences and advertisers migrate online, the Federal Trade Commission began a two-day workshop Tuesday to examine the profound challenges facing media companies and explore ways the government can help them survive (my emphasis).

Henry Waxman — this should come as no shock — thusly concludes:

Acknowledging that talk of government support for the press raises “red flags,” Waxman stressed it is not the job of Congress to “deny the evolution of media.”

But “as we look at these various solutions, government’s going to have to be involved in one way or the other,” he warned (again, my emphasis).

The DEM (what I term the Defeatist, Elitist Media) are already nose-deep in the arse of the Obama Administration.

Is there anyone besides myself, reading the above, who doesn’t feel a massive chill running up and down their spine when our government begins making noise like it needs to fiscally shore up (read: control) the United States media?

And this support — do you wonder, as do I, if such fiscal support will somehow manage to assist venues such as Conservative Talk Radio? Fox News? Conservative news and information sites on the internet?

This is nothing more than the Governmental Toe being dipped into the Media Control waters.

Any rational, thinking American should be sickened and appalled today at the implications here.

One Seattle PD officer, doing the right thing, performing his duty, came upon a stopped vehicle very early Tuesday morning, in the dead of night. The hood was up, the engine was running. He ran the plate. It came back stolen.

While sitting in his car, a man named Maurice Clemmons came up from behind the officer’s patrol unit. The officer exited and immediately recognized Clemmons by way of the large mole on the left side of his face.

Maurice Clemmons was wanted in connection with the murder of four Lakewood, Washington police officers on Sunday, November 29th, at 8:15 am, in the Forza Coffee Shop. The officers were preparing reports on their laptops. Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold and Greg Richards were the officers killed. Go here for photos of the scene.

They were essentially executed.

The Seattle PD officer saw the face of Clemmons and unholstered his handgun. Clemmons made a move and the officer — rightly so — responded. Clemmons was killed. He was found to be in possession of a handgun taken from one of the officers at the Forza Coffee Shop scene.

Clemmons had been hit by a bullet, in the stomach, by one of the officers at the original scene.

I can think of no finer outcome for this scenario.

One single diligent cop can make a difference. One single diligent cop did his job.

I know, because I’ve been that one single diligent cop on some very imporant occasions.

One suspect is dead and taxpayers are spared the expense of a trial and incarceration costs for an animal that would have become the Latest Leftist Project for liberal defense attornies trying to make names for themselves in order to charge higher hourly fees.

Seattle PD Officer Benjamin L. Kelly, 39, the seven-year law enforcement veteran who shot and killed Clemmons, should be honored.

The continuing lies aren’t lies; they’re merely “inconvenient obstacles.”

Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that they had prevented work they did not agree with from being included in the panel’s fourth assessment report, which was published in 2007.