USAID Was Spending $268 Million to Fund Over 6,000 Approved Journalists – While at the Same Time Spending MILLIONS to Silence Conservative, Independent Media Like The Gateway Pundit

Gateway Pundit ^ | February 6, 2025 | Jim Hoft

[Macho MAGA Man]

The Columbia Journalism Review on Tuesday released a report on the importance of USAID’s donations to approved journalists at home and abroad.

According to CJR, USAID spent $268 million to fund over 6,000 approved journalists. Obviously, these were the leftwing variety of journalist who did not question COVID, elections, climate change, DEI policies, etc.

[Already, though, the new administration’s approach to USAID has had sharp consequences all over the world—after taking office, Trump signed an order freezing virtually all American aid spending for ninety days, grinding dependent humanitarian operations to an immediate halt across a dizzying array of different project areas. Journalists have been among those affected: according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the aid freeze appears to have put a hold on $268 million that was earmarked to fund “independent media and the free flow of information” this year. In the recent past, USAID had boasted of supporting more than six thousand journalists, around seven hundred independent newsrooms, and nearly three hundred media-focused civil society groups in thirty is, the full impact of the freeze is hard to measure, since many recipients are “hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks.”]

This is a stunning admission.

The CJR report wants you to feel sadness that these approved media outlets in 30 countries, including the US, will no longer be receiving your taxpayer dollars to publish their globalist propaganda.

Here is what Columbia Journalism Review forgot to mention.

At the same time USAID was funding 6,000 approved journalists – USAID was also spending MILLIONS to silence populist and conservative outlets like The Gateway Pundit.

Here are a few examples of how USAID was funding censorship organizations that targeted The Gateway Pundit and others.

[Macho MAGA Man]

This is incredible.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

I knew it!

Everybody got a cut.

[wildcard_redneck]

USAID was being used to propagandize against, muzzle and attack American citizens. People need to go to jail over this treason.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hmmmmm. I wonder if.... naw, Feral Judges can’t be bought, Right? Right? Maybe an investigation....

[datricker]

I said this too - it was the simplest explanation the drive by media was taking bribes

[joshua c]

and this was going on even when the republicans were in charge?

am i wrong?

Trump is the first president to pull back the curtain?

[cgbg]

Great question—we need to learn a lot more about the history here.

It looks like the CIA was running a master deception and subversion operation using AID as a front.

[Common Sense 101]

This perverted USAID funding explains how the vile, POS, libtard enemdia (NYT, Compost, Politico, etc.) have managed to stay in business depite continual declines in subscription and advertising revenue... unfriggin’ believable.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

So many like Hannity and MSRC made money pointing out the hypocracy of legacy media with an over arching pricipal they were set in their ideology and just promoting what they believed.

I said 15 years ago they were all a bunch of pitchmen no different than Chef Tony or Ron Popeil reading scripts and creating ad copy.

Paid actors - sell outs - losers

[mikey_hates_everything]

We knew this had to be going on. Now we know where the money mostly came from. I say mostly because the audits are long from being over.

[No name given]

And the sooner the better.

[Macho MAGA Man]

You’re absolutely correct!

[No name given]

How corrupt is that?! Very!

[PGR88]

Just to Note - the Columbia Journalism Review believes USAID funding "journalists" is a good thing.

Also noted this from the article

RSF also noted the harsh effect on journalism in Ukraine, where 90 percent of news organizations rely on USAID funding,

[Bon of Babble]

I read the list of what USAID was funding - and thought it was off of the Babylon Bee at first. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. Billions of tax dollars spent on the most ridiculous of programs - while we get up and go to work every day to pay for it.

Yet American families that were devastated by Hurricane Helene in North Caroline couldn’t get help from FEMA and this young American man couldn’t pay for his inhaler after the price jumped from $66 to over $500:

Daily Mail:

“Young man dies in agony after price of his inhaler rose from $66 to $540”

[FLT-bird]

Operation Mockingbird 2.0

[cuz1961]

well thats rather illuminating

no wonder free republic has a narrative control cubicle.

a paid one apparently ?

( waving at all the usual suspects )

/-)

[cgbg]

“Columbia Journalism Review believes USAID funding “journalists” is a good thing.”

The association of whores think pimps are a good thing.

[ansel12]

Is someone investigating this along with the journolist of years ago? Now appears to be the time to take another look at that story the media buried back then.