Financial media accessories to expected Wall St. bailout winners

• (Why people go into such shady jobs--aiming to be influential via attachment to someone actually doing a particular job, then yakking about it -- is another question).

(Ad Age): "So while some lawmakers are arguing that if taxpayers are going to bail out Wall Street screw-ups, then we're entitled to a piece of any future profits -- it's only fair!

• -- well, maybe taxpayers should also get a cut of the key accessories to the crime:

• the financial media.

After all, if the big bailout is meant to prop up Wall Street firms that would otherwise go under, it stands to reason that

• the bailout will also prop up the financial media that

• are dependent on those firms

both for reportorial fodder and advertising support."...via Poynter.org/Romenesko

• (Reminded me of baseball media being accessories to whatever scams MLB comes up with and fans left holding the bag. Noted previously on this blog and by others) sm

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