NBC News Digital, NY Times and WashPost’s Union Votes to Request 'Public Financing for Journalism’

NewsBusters ^ | 5/4/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

One of the premier national unions for liberal outlets such as NBC News Digital, The Washington Post and The New York Times actually voted to request the government finance the news industry with taxpayer dollars. Surprisingly, it was The Times that released the story Sunday May 3. The article noted how the president of the “most prominent journalists’ union in the country, the NewsGuild, crossed a line that once seemed unimaginable: He asked the government for money.” Then came the kicker: “The guild’s leaders voted to request “‘public financing for journalism.’” NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss said that “One thing we can't remain objective about is our own demise."

[SkyDancer]

They take comments on Twitter and FB but I don’t use Twitter or go to FB.

[SkyDancer]

PS: I’ve never had a problem with them although I do have several AD blockers running.

[FLCowboy,]

This is the biggest joke I’ve heard in a long time. Denigrate half the market due to your bias, then ask them to seek government bailouts.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yes.

[JV3MRC]

Why is your account listed as “banned or suspended”?

[mo]

I guess the unions are getting their cut of the DS propaganda dollars.

[humblegunner]

Why is your account listed as “banned or suspended”?

Because I engaged in too much self promotion and got Zotted.

Looks like you're about 96% there, spunky.

[Brilliant]

I would pay them NOT to publish.

[Luke21]

It’s like having prison inmates pay their jailers’ salaries.

[Steve_Seattle]

Thanks. Same here about Twitter and Facebook.

[MAGAthon]

clearly the shut-downs the FakeNewsMSM cheers on relentlessly is affecting the amount of ads.

time for FakeNewsMSM to call for the re-opening of the economy, because the shut-downs were based on FakeModels anyway.

finally, hard to give money to “journalism” when there is so little of it in the FakeNewsMSM.

[arthurus]

It is also turning the MSM into open and official Pravda.

[mewzilla]

Now that takes some chutzpah...

[grey_whiskers]

That's what advertisements are for.

You just want to make yourselves Pravda *officially*.

[Mariner]

If they produced a decent product people would buy it.

[zaxtres]

They already have public financing for journalism. It’s called the free market economy. The public finances the operation when they buy the tripe being sold. And if they mean financing through our taxpayer dollars then they already have NPR what more do they need? Anything more and it becomes a government controlled operation. Or are they trying to do what higher education did? Unions are outdated and not necessary, they should have gone away like the dodo bird.

[SuperLuminal]

I'd go along with that as long as the money is spent on the costs of transporting all of the Nation's so-called journalists to long-term housing at Gitmo...

OTOH, maybe there is a serious plot behind the coming release of Daniel Pearl's killers... I believe the U.S. will snatch him up when he is released and take him to Gitmo...

Hmmmmm...

[Dogbert41]

They don’t provide a public service.

[Eddie01]

What journalism?

[Kenny Bania]

NBC News Digital, NY Times and WashPost’s Union Votes to Request 'Public Financing for Journalism’

Dear NBC, NYT, and WaPo:

Eat my ass.