Posted on 04/09/2020 3:58:58 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Democrats sense that people are open to stimulus spending, so they are taking advantage and proposing things they would never suggest under normal circumstances.
The latest laughable proposal from Senator Amy Klobuchar and other Democrats, is a stimulus bill for their friends in the media.
The Hill reports:
Democratic senators call for funding for local media in coronavirus stimulus
More than a dozen senators are calling for any future stimulus package addressing the economic fallout from the novel coronavirus to include funding for local journalism, saying that communities across the U.S. are at risk of losing their source of news because of the pandemic.
“Local news is in a state of crisis that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” the senators wrote in a letter sent to the upper chamber’s leadership on Wednesday.
The letter was signed by 18 Democratic senators, including Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.), as well as Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine).
The letter notes many of the struggles the news industry has felt over the last two decades as big tech platforms swallow up a majority of the ad revenue that was a key source of profit during the print age. Newsroom employment has significantly decreased and about 1,800 local newspapers have ceased their operations since 2004, according to a University of North Carolina report.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Agreed. No is a good answer.
Furthering the media’s function as the CPUSA’s party organ.
HELL no.
F the media. And the horse they rode in on.
Hey, I know...let’s give NPR/PBS $75 million extra.
This proves that the media has been taken over by the rat party. Can you imagine these senators wanting to give money to a Republican controlled entity? It would never happen.
In the same way that NPR and PBS have become propaganda organs for the communist (democrat) party, they now want to take it national, in all corners of the USA.
To the New York Slimes, Washington Compost, Shitcago Tribune etc., I say die MOFO, die!
No frickin’ way.
“The letter notes many of the struggles the news industry has felt over the last two decades as big tech platforms swallow up a majority of the ad revenue that was a key source of profit during the print age.”
The letter ignores the inefficiencies of newspaper advertising and how big tech allows for advertisers to pay for the audience that they want, not the one that the paper offers (and often lied about).
Larger platforms like Facebook, Google, and Bing, while generally promoting trash, have allowed businesses to buy target ads for a small fraction of what a print publication would charge, with better results. It was a win-win-lose, with the loser being the small newspaper that grossly overcharged for the small audience they had. Nothing stopped these “journalists” from reorganizing as a web platform.
COMMUNIST GOALS FROM 1963:
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
Maybe it’s time for the president to invoke executive authority to line item veto, since this is a national emergency. The incoming Republican Congress must step up, not as in years past when they had the majority but liked using the corrupted system to fill their own pork and personal pockets.
Stimulus ??? Wouldn’t this be more appropriately called a `Reward`?
To give these people tax payers' financial support would be to establish a government funded mendacious political propaganda machine for the Democrat Party.
Of course, that's what corrupt Democrat politicians would love.
Thank God Donald Trump is President of the USA!
Well said.
At the very least they should be made to pay restitution to all Americans for the emotional damage their biased propaganda, disrespect to the President and outright lies have inflicted on everyone during this crisis.
Short answer = ‘no’
Long answer = ‘F*^# no!!’
This article gets only a piece of the action that is being thrown into the works. The following is a perfect example of how the libs in congress are trying to pass the buck that was dirty. It is typical of liberal history to use stress situations to take advantages for their personal use. And then try to pass the blame when they get the compromise in the overall attempt by their opposition to accomplish a goal.
Here is where the GOP needed to say no, not compromise this way, and tell the public exactly what the libs that created the bill were doing. Instead they get hit pieces for the failure of the congress to be honest. Trump did say they had to compromise but here is what happens if they don’t publicly promote the compromise:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-26/coronavirus-stimulus-special-interests
And remember, the Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of 1.3 million and 2 million on Sunday, more than 30 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.6 million. If you’re going to lie by blaming the wrong party to influence thought, do it big.
rwood
Another slush fund for the Democrats and their Axis power friends in the enemy media.
Let’s bail out the NRA instead.
ML/NJ
Compared to the national players local news is less political and more politically diverse. Just look at Sinclair.
I also don’t think it helps anyone but the politicians when no one is watching what they do.
Having said that I don’t think this bailout can go anywhere.
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