“free press” and being on the government dole sounds like an oxymoron to me.
foreign governments buying the foreign “news” media isn’t freedom of the press nor is it an independent press, it’s a bought press that publishes what it’s buyers tell them to publish ... same goes for governments buying domestic “news” media ...
Is the BBC going to miss their payroll? What a bunch of snakes.
I’ve got no sympathy for the Beeb.
😭
Perhaps they should go hat-in-hand to China.
They are “totally separate” from BBC news.
Let me guess—Chinese wall.
Lol.
You can’t make up this stuff.
We all could smell ‘the stink’. It was only that we didn’t know where it was really coming from. I always assumed it was the likes of Soros, or similar. I *assumed* our R’s in Congress were performing their due diligence and providing oversight. Yeah yeah...I know.
I didn’t think it was this bad though. We all jumped on Canada when it openly declared it would fund ‘certain’ media, when the whole time, ALL of the media is bought and paid for - it wasn’t just the ‘ideological alignment’ we assumed.
The BBC can pay it out of their own coffers. It isn’t the USA’s job to fund American hating media outlets.
They must mean a freeby press who has other governments pay their payroll.
Why are funding BBC anything/?
Too bad.
Let your readership support you like it used to do with newspapers.
BTTT
And Brits are still paying their boob tube tax.
Why?
Holy merde, look at this...
https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3952578
506 employees?employees??
What the bleep...
And the rest of it makes very interesting reading, too...
BTW, this MAY be another one if it’s affiliated with The Guardian newspaper...
If it is, wonder if that lot got any US taxpayer money...
Now this is really getting wild. Stumbled on it while looking for something else.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naseam-alavi
The guy worked for USAID until last month.
Check out his affiliations.
ok
now give us a list of who you gave money to
8%.
And they call it “income.”
Why are we funding another organization to do what we(USAID) are already doing?