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House Dems Propose $1 Billion in Subsidies for Local Newspapers
Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 14, 2021 4:50 pm | Chuck Ross

Posted on 09/15/2021 4:50:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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#ing Rats


21 posted on 09/15/2021 5:16:29 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Olog-hai

22 posted on 09/15/2021 5:16:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

Welfare for the government-supporting propaganda industry...


23 posted on 09/15/2021 5:18:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Olog-hai

“The Federal Rag”


24 posted on 09/15/2021 5:19:21 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: Olog-hai

as the nationalization of key businesses marches on.


25 posted on 09/15/2021 5:20:30 PM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember metal toys in Cracker-Jacks.)
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To: Olog-hai

Trying to prop up the failing Ministry of Propaganda outlets.


26 posted on 09/15/2021 5:22:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

They see how easily True-dope was able to grease the Canadian MSM with $600 million CDN, so they figure they can do it in Amerikka.


27 posted on 09/15/2021 5:23:21 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s a payout to Gannett newspapers which owns most of the newspapers in the US - including USA Today and all of whom are DNC propaganda yellow journalists.


28 posted on 09/15/2021 5:24:24 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Olog-hai

Propping up small town newspapers, which are actually few media conglomerates that primarily run the same stories in every newspaper...

This is for the sole purpose of “introducing” the 2024 Democrat Presidential candidate. That’s how BO got his start. There were weekly public interest stories about him and Michelle , then the op-eds weighed in.

You know how this sad story ends.

One positive. How many Americans are literate?


29 posted on 09/15/2021 5:26:27 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Mark

No, that’s for straight men.


30 posted on 09/15/2021 5:32:52 PM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: Olog-hai
Government subsidies to the press won't influence their "journalism" at all. Not one bit. Nope.

On the other hand, is it even possible that they could be more pro-Dem / pro-Commie than they already are today?

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors
Benjamin Franklin, July 9, 1722 in the New England Courant. He was writing under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood." Franklin was just sixteen when he expressed that!

31 posted on 09/15/2021 5:33:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("If I’m going to get my political views from those who chase balls, I’ll ask my dog.")
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To: blackdog

Stat controlled media. Isn’t that unconstitutional?


32 posted on 09/15/2021 5:36:54 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Olog-hai

Why bother? No one reads them anymore.
It’s probably more democrat money laundering.


33 posted on 09/15/2021 5:39:38 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Olog-hai

How much for buggy whip factories?


34 posted on 09/15/2021 5:41:42 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Olog-hai

I thought according to the Constitution that the press is off limits to the government; if the government gives it money then the government can dictate news.


35 posted on 09/15/2021 5:42:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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The left don’t need no stinkin’ Bill of Rights.

But it is remarkable to see communist constitutions, when they render the same natural rights in “positive” language (remember Obama railing against “negative liberties”?) and with sneaky caveats. Take Article 125 of the USSR constitution, for example:
In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law:
  1. freedom of speech;
  2. freedom of the press;
  3. freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
  4. freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
That’s how people like the late RBG would want the First Amendment rewritten. See how they are no longer natural rights.
36 posted on 09/15/2021 5:50:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: hardspunned
"Who prints up the tax forms ballots?

I didn't fix it, but both questions are worth an answer.

37 posted on 09/15/2021 5:51:40 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
A+
38 posted on 09/15/2021 5:52:42 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Olog-hai

The thing is: If it’s not in the Constitution you can do it. The Constitution doesn’t prevent, it allows - limits what the government can/can’t do, not the citizens.


39 posted on 09/15/2021 5:53:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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To: Olog-hai

Print news is one of the largest sources of waste paper in America. Surprised the tree hugger Democrats aren’t celebrating the demise of the industry.


40 posted on 09/15/2021 6:01:11 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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