Posted on 04/20/2020 12:53:24 PM PDT by rintintin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers called on Sunday for expanding payroll assistance to struggling local newspapers and broadcast stations that have seen advertising revenue plummet during the coronavirus pandemic.
Democratic Senators Maria Cantwell and Amy Klobuchar and Republicans John Kennedy and John Boozman urged Senate leaders to revise the rules to make thousands of local newspapers, TV and radio stations eligible for assistance under the Paycheck Protection Program.
Many local outlets are ineligible because they are owned by parent companies too large to qualify.
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Where’s my 2k a month for 6 months.
I figured it would only cost 3 to 4 trillion.
Peanuts :)
I like Kennedy, but he’s wrong on this one. I don’t want a single penny of my tax dollars going to any of these media scum.
I don’t want a single penny of my tax dollars going to any of these media scum.”
Unfortunately, you and I have no say. I’m pretty confident our Republican “leadership” will go along with this idea.
The GOP is not your friend.
Let ‘em die.
Yeah, make the newspapers just like National Public Radio— with NO strings attached for plastering them all with OUR money while they sit around and crap on us, and our President.
Tough crap Klobuchar etal you will have to help real PRODUCERS of our economy first...not the ones who look down their snotty elitist noses at all of us suffering in our small companies and hard at work farmers.
If only the US lawmakers had bailed out the horse and buggy industry during the Spanish Flu.
NO WAY!!
We have a number of them around here, and they parrot the corporate line. Make them truly independent and then MAYBE we can talk.
Why we had to break up the Bell System but nobody else is beyond me.
Agree.
Has Congress given up their salaries, during this shut down?
Freedom of the press means freedom to fail.
Or are they also to big to fail?
EXACTLY!!
Un-f-ing believable! The MEDIA in all forms is perpetuating the crisis,colluding with the DNC and trying to overthrow the President as the economy is in ashes. So they will get BAILOUT/STIMULUS by the American tax payer?!!!!! Congress is absolutely INSANE!
Any media-type with a record of bias reporting. Any which have engaged in anti-Trump editorializing,should NOT receive a penny. Emphasis - NOT!!!
HELL NO, let them die which is what they are in the process of doing right now.
Watch Mitch and the rest of them vote this through
Probably the democrats will add it to the current legislation passing through today.
Great idea “republican” lawmakers. Fund your enemies.
Wth is wrong with some brains??
our local rag has nothing but bad to say about Trump or any pub.....I would hope they go down the toilet...
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