Posted on 10/31/2014 2:54:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cash-strapped news outlets looking to cover President Obama's trip to Asia next month may find it difficult to do so.
At a bare minimum, outlets will have to front $60,000 per person for a seat on the chartered plane that will tail Obama as he visits China, Myanmar and Australia on a 9-day trip next month.
News organizations split the cost of the chartered flight evenly, so when only a few outlets sign up, the cost skyrockets. 51 journalists will be onboard when Obama departs on Nov. 9, which partially explains the eye-popping sum.
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Just have Josh Ernst phone in the stories!
Obama EO’s amnesty, then flees the country.
It’s the “Bow Tour”...
Remember when that NYT editorialist wrote in with that huge, whiney speech about how it was insulting and unfair that presstitutes could no longer afford to live in the fancy parts of Manhattan..?
About two years ago.
He was really a whiney b*tch about it, too.
They couldn’t pay me enough to listen to this “Phony” or any other socialist as far as this goes. All gas and no substance.
One reason why newspapers have been losing so much of their circulation lately is because readers have become tired of reading about Obama.
Any newspaper that spends $60,000 to send a reporter on Obama’s boring trip to Asia so they can write boring stories about his boring speeches there will deserve their inevitable trip to the bankruptcy courts.
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