Posted on 04/30/2020 1:12:02 PM PDT by JV3MRC
The Los Angeles Times touted a new media lobbying effort to expand federal ad spending by billions of dollars for local media companies. In a story headlined, “Rocked by coronavirus losses, TV, radio, newspapers seek government ad dollars,” The Times pushed the case for expanded government-funding of media outlets. “Every year the federal government spends around $1 billion in advertising to promote its programs and military recruitment,” The Times said. The outlet also pulled on the heart strings of its readers. It stated how media companies were “financially devastated by the coronavirus outbreak, “even as the hunger for news and information on the pandemic is driving up viewing and readership.“
And then came the kicker: Representatives from media companies involved in a new lobbying effort want Congress to expand “federal advertising spending to between $5 billion and $10 billion for the rest of the year.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
On a one-time basis, I support the use of Federal funds to run ads advocating Trump’s re-election. $10b seems like a nice round number.
The Green Bay press Gazette, which is part of the Gannett news org. was begging for readers to donate to the paper in order for them to report on ‘ignored communities’ like the native Americans and other minority communities. I wrote them and asked them if that included conservatives. Haven’t heard back yet.
Lumbergh says, “Yeeeaahhhh, that’s a big negative.”
Why not have the government shut them down also? I mean if other parts of the First Amendment can be restricted why not the press? Heck at this time they really are only regurgitating press releases anyhow...
Uh, NO.
I’m sure many DEEP STATERS within the SWAMP will see this and attempt to increase their ad spending to help out their ideological compadres. LET’S KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS!
Now this is a total waste of taxpayer money that should never be considered. We’ve been paying NPR and PBS for 40+ years and can’t seem to pull the trigger on their biased, worthless reporting and programming. Once it’s funded, it never ends.
Why don’t they just ask the CCP to pay them, they are already working for them.
Learning to code isn’t that hard.
Maybe they should do pledge drives.
Last April we went to an Angels game and I didn’t bring a jacket or sweatshirt, mostly because my wife said I should. By the fifth inning I was freezing. I looked in the souvenir store and things were expensive, so I was ready to just suck it up and deal with the cold. Right outside the store the LA Times had a table where they offered a discount sweatshirt if you signed up to get the online paper for free for three months. I signed up and got the sweatshirt. After 3 months I cancelled. They kept sending it for free for another 6 months. They kept offering me deals like 6 months for a dollar. It was ridiculous. After reading one of their particularly left wing biased editorials I called them up and said I would sue them if they did not stop sending it. This was the online version and somehow it kept getting past my spam block. They finally stopped.
These scum Commie toilet papers are BEGGING readers for money. They need to FOAD!
The media today is a corrupt institution committed to the destruction of America.
it’s insulting that FakeNewsMSM is considered “essential” during the FakeCovidCrisis.
from Sky UK, owned by Comcast/NBC Universal. it might be UK poll, but the lack of public trust in so-called “media” no doubt might be even worse in US.
23 Apr: Sky UK Exlcusive: Coronavirus: Britons still support lockdown despite being sadder and more anxious - poll
In a poll of 1,652 Britons for Sky News conducted by YouGov this week, the public were emphatic that the lockdown should continue.
by Sam Coates
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Journalists fare very badly in the poll. Some 24% say they trust TV journalists while 64% say they do not, giving a net score of minus 40.
Meanwhile, 17% say they trust newspaper journalists, while 72% say they do not, giving an overall net score of minus 55.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-britons-have-become-sadder-and-more-anxious-since-lockdown-poll-11977655
when I originally posted this on FR, there were comments, mostly scathing.
one wag replied with their own graph, showing phony YouGov pollsters with around minus 75.
why would you advertise in some rags that nobody buys/reads
Give it all to the Epoch Times. Let the rest rot. All they are doing is killing trees needlessly. SAVE THE ENVIORNMENT, Put newspapers out of business!
Give the money to China instead. They spew less poison into tbe United States that the MSM does.
June 18, 2018
The Los Angeles Times has a new owner, a new editor and, after years of upheaval, a new path forward.
On the day that Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong completed his $500-million purchase of the 136-year-old newspaper, the L.A. biotech billionaire announced he was naming veteran journalist Norman Pearlstine as its executive editor.
Pearlstine has spent 50 years in journalism helping shape some of the nation’s most prominent publications — including Time Inc. magazines, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Forbes. It was the first major move by Soon-Shiong, who also bought the San Diego Union-Tribune, Spanish-language Hoy and several community papers from Chicago newspaper company Tronc.
58 posted on 12/7/2019, 5:34:32 PM by Bookshelf
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