Posted on 03/24/2020 1:58:49 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
THE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 HAS UPENDED everything, including business as usual in Washington. In a matter of days, facing the reality of a nationwide shutdown and a worsening economic crisis, Congress got serious about spending money—a lot of it.
A recovery package in the trillions of dollars is expected soon, and more stimulus bills are likely to follow. While the most powerful lobbies in Washington—the airlines, the oil companies, the chambers of commerce—are ready with their wish lists, the media and policymakers aren’t talking enough about how recovery and stimulus bills could help journalism.
Free Press, the independent, nonprofit advocacy organization I lead, champions structural solutions to the news business’s dire financial problems. We’ve long campaigned for more federal and state support for public media, opposed media consolidation, and argued that journalism is too important to democracy to be left to the whims of the market.
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Why bail you out?
I can get left wing lies and falsehoods from a variety of sources.
I was thinking a rope and a tree
Why not fund the Communist Party in every corner of the world?
The so-called journalism of today doesn’t need tax dollars for stimulus; it needs an enema to cleanse itself of foulness!
All the folks who howled for “decisive actions” and lock downs are partly responsible...bet they bitch just as loud as anyone else about the fruits of their labors...
Yeah. I got a stimulus for the Media. It involves cattle prods and bare rear ends.
That’ll stimulate them.
Hahahahaha I like the way you think.
Having Pence in charge would also have the entertaining side effect of hearing leftist heads in the media popping like popcorn.
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