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Journalists welcome Biden bill's $1.6B tax credit to local news outlets, despite ethics questions
Fox News ^
| 11/12/2021
| AP
Posted on 11/16/2021 11:50:10 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Leading journalists acknowledge that it's awkward to receive financial assistance from a government they cover independently.
President Biden's $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support in response to the decline of local news.
The help would come in the form of a payroll tax credit for companies that employ eligible local journalists. The measure would allow newspapers, digital news outlets and radio and television stations to claim a tax credit of $25,000 the first year and $15,000 the next four years for up to 1,500 journalists.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mediacorruption; payoff; payola; paytoplay
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To: marcusmaximus
Ethics and journalism go together like peanut butter and dirty socks.
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:51:12 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Lurker
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Ethics and journalism go together like peanut butter and dirty socks soiled diapers.
There. Closer analogy.
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:54:04 AM PST
by
Carl Vehse
(A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
To: marcusmaximus
Imagine the bad news in year #4. Or else!
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:55:17 AM PST
by
blackdog
(Jab Dodger. )
To: marcusmaximus
Lol. Journalism and ethics. Ha hah hah. Is this the Babylon Bee?
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:56:36 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: marcusmaximus
Crony-capitalist fascism at its worst.
Local old-style media is already a near monopoly, who exist not by ad revenue or better reporting, but rather, by monopoly position. Thus they have long been beholden to report state-sponsored news.
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:56:57 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: marcusmaximus
You get what you pay for.
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:58:46 AM PST
by
dblshot
To: marcusmaximus
Liberal wokey news ops are circling the drain and this is nothing but a bailout and subsidy.
To: marcusmaximus
So basically none of this trillion is actually going to roads and bridges.
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posted on
11/16/2021 11:59:31 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: marcusmaximus
Whores never complain when their pimp gives them a little extra pocket money...
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:00:52 PM PST
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:02:17 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
To: 1Old Pro
It will line a lot of deserving pockets in the District of Criminals, and that’s all you peasants need to know.
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:03:14 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
To: marcusmaximus
They’re already taking steps on The Twittsewer and Fecesbook to make “journalists” a protected class - you’ll be suspended if you criticize them or their lies.
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:06:50 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: marcusmaximus
Anyone accepting that money is, almost by definition, no longer a journalist.
Call them scriveners, propagandists, mouthpieces, agents, prostitutes— but not journalists.
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:08:26 PM PST
by
tsomer
To: marcusmaximus
Leading journalists acknowledge that it's awkward to receive financial assistance from a government they cover independently. These swamp dwellers have never covered the Dementia Joe regime independently. They are part of this illegitimate regime.
To: marcusmaximus
Shouldn’t “journalists” be in quotes?
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:09:22 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: tsomer
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:10:54 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:11:18 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: marcusmaximus
A payroll tax credit means that journalists will get SS and Medicare for free, paid for by their victims.
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posted on
11/16/2021 12:13:15 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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