Posted on 03/26/2015 11:00:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
State run media. When you first heard Rush Limbaugh coin that term, many probably believed he was at the very least guilty of a bit of hyperbole. Well, according to Jeryl Bier of the Weekly Standard, in the case of Politico it really does look like state run media due to payoffs by various federal agencies in the form of subscription fees.
Bier lays out in detail the payoffs, uh, I mean "subscription fees," the feds have paid to Politico over the years. Since 2011 nearly a million bucks paid by federal departments and agencies to Politico with nearly $432, 000 paid last year alone. Oh, and with over $198,000 paid to Politico so far this year, the previous record could easily be broken:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
There is a reason they are called Propagandico.
Shouldn't equal time apply... FEDs should get the other side of the story with a $198,000/year subscription to FR.
I was unaware they were by subscription only....
Ive neve been asked ro subscribe to politico.
it sure looks like inapporpriate..DONATION S to me!!
Or Pravdaco maybe? Pravlitico? Politipravda?
$432,000 tax dollars spent on subscription fees to politico last year?! Stunning.
Questions for the House committee:
1. What exactly did we buy with that money?
2. Did we pay more or less than anyone else?
3. Who requested the payment / Who authorized it?
4, What other US departments are sending payments to Politico?
5. Are we making similar payments to other news services?
6. Did Politico invoice us for the $43K?
7. What did Politico believe they were selling?
8. What did Politico expect to do in return for the payment?
9. Who at Politico negotiated this deal? / What is his/her background?
10. Of Poltico’s 2014 balance sheet, what percentatage of their income came from US Gov’t departments?
The article is so interesting, my only question is, “What will the government pay Politico to say in reaction?”
“No comment from Politico. Perhaps they are embarrassed they were exposed.”
From what I can tell, leftists do not get embarrassed.
For the left, if denial is too ridiculous, even for a leftist, then no comment is the next best thing.
I was just commenting the other day that this could be a real big story undisclosed because it’s controlled by the very media that is involved.
The untold story stems from factual observations that in the years 2009 and 2010, the years of the bailouts, major media organizations, especially print media, came to Washington looking for a bailout. Remember that?
What can we infer from the above observations? We know the media was struggling, especially the liberal media. We know they complained about tech changes and internet competition.
From the other side, pretend you are an official inside the Obama Administration, and here comes to you executives from some of the top news organizations in the country, and they’re asking where they can get some of that free money being passed out.
And then we observe how slavish the media has become since regarding all things Obama.
My example the other day was MSNBC. This is a big time money loser. Yet they’ve been propped up throughout their exisitence, why? Is General Electric or Microsoft impervious to perpetual money loss over time with no upside? No, they are not. So it’s a safe guess to think there’s money coming from somewhere to keep GE and Microsoft funneling funds to MSNBC.
So many of our imposed tax dollars going to pay for the regime’s questionable deals. Not only with Politico. Just HOW MANY TV ads were paid for by the muslim crew in DC to entrap more low info voters and persons who didn’t to now call up for FREE to get their health care for subsidized o-care. EVERY little thing coming from this bunch of bananas is brown and rotten to the core.
This is Russia’s Khrushchev proclaiming they would defeat US from within. pResident o has done a very good job of that
Excellent questions that should and must be asked.
One can only imagine the sort of bogus subscriptions and online advertising fees for ads that never run that are necessary to keep the New York Times afloat.
New name: the Democrat Pollutico...
Subscriptions for Politico Pro.
Well, it couldn’t survive otherwise.
You need to shift everything down by one (and #3 moved up one):
1) By whose authority were taxpayer funds...
Course, we all KNOW every penny is the govts’ *rolls eyes*....
ah Okay
what Is Politico Pro?
Anyone have their tax ID number?
Don’t various govt agencies also subscribe to the NYT/WaPo/WSJ and local or specialized pubs, i.e., the Chicago office(s) would subscribe to the Trib or Sun-Times?
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