Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

[asaratis]

US Taxpayers will provide the funding of a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.

What the hell does this do to help the American people? No longer would journalists be compensated based on the merits of their journalism talents but on the simple fact that they call themselves 'journalists'.

Without having read the 2500+ pages of the bill, I predict multiple hundreds more surprises that have NOTHING TO DO with helping the American people are hidden in this monstrosity.

Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

The $3.5 trillion spending bill will pay each journalist up to $50,000 annually, which would further decrease the credibility of the media.

www.dailysignal.com

There’s one piece of the $3.5 trillion spending bill that the media is unlikely to tell you about—their bailout.


The massive, bloated $3.5 billion spending bill has so much pork that fiscal hawks could eat it for weeks. One piece that hasn’t received much attention yet is a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.


Yes, that’s correct, your tax dollars would be paying 50% of the salary of many journalists, whether you like their reporting or not.


Think of it as a way to turn every news outlet in America into a version of NPR.



Let’s be clear: “Saving” the media would destroy the media. How could we ever trust journalists to accurately cover the elected officials who voted against their funding? How can you “speak truth to power” when you’re also pleading with that power for cash? Which news outlets would get the funding, and which would be snubbed?


Any pretense of objectivity would be destroyed once the media is on the federal payroll.

 

[Pete7469]

Next they will begin "disappearing" the few actual journalists who try and challenge the elites and their criminal behavior.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

They need to stop calling them bills and start calling them Spam Scams.

 

[BlueGin]

US Taxpayers will provide the funding of a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.

What the hell does this do to help the American people? No longer would journalists be compensated based on the merits of their journalism talents but on the simple fact that they call themselves 'journalists'.

Without having read the 2500+ pages of the bill, I predict multiple hundreds more surprises that have NOTHING TO DO with helping the American people are hidden in this monstrosity.

Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

The $3.5 trillion spending bill will pay each journalist up to $50,000 annually, which would further decrease the credibility of the media.

www.dailysignal.com

Compensation for pushing the government propaganda no doubt.

 

[hadit]

Guess who is going to be called journalists and who will not be allowed the credit?

 

[MarathonMike]

asaratis Remember Forrest Gump's famous quote "Life is like a box of chocolates. You don't know what you are going to get". So replace 'Life' with 'Spending bill' and replace 'chocolates' with 'shitcakes'.

 

[Street Juice]

US Taxpayers will provide the funding of a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.

What the hell does this do to help the American people? No longer would journalists be compensated based on the merits of their journalism talents but on the simple fact that they call themselves 'journalists'.

Without having read the 2500+ pages of the bill, I predict multiple hundreds more surprises that have NOTHING TO DO with helping the American people are hidden in this monstrosity.

Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

The $3.5 trillion spending bill will pay each journalist up to $50,000 annually, which would further decrease the credibility of the media.

www.dailysignal.com

If this is true, it's bad news indeed. Who gets to decide who is and isn't a "journalist?" What're the criteria? You can be sure it will be necessary NOT to investigate the powerful in order to get your annual payoff.

 

[rightwinger]

Local journalism is suffering since the advent of the internet

 

[Votto]

US Taxpayers will provide the funding of a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.

What the hell does this do to help the American people? No longer would journalists be compensated based on the merits of their journalism talents but on the simple fact that they call themselves 'journalists'.

Without having read the 2500+ pages of the bill, I predict multiple hundreds more surprises that have NOTHING TO DO with helping the American people are hidden in this monstrosity.

Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

The $3.5 trillion spending bill will pay each journalist up to $50,000 annually, which would further decrease the credibility of the media.

www.dailysignal.com

They are simply funding their propaganda

Nothing to see here.

 

[Votto]

Local journalism is suffering since the advent of the internet

I hear blacksmiths are also in a terrible spot

That and those building the Keystone Pipeline, but the DNC don't seem to care much about them.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Adam Guillette is currently the president of Accuracy in Media. Previously, he served as the vice president of development for Project Veritas.

Accuracy in Media (AIM) is an American non-profit conservative news media watchdog founded in 1969 by economist Reed Irvine.

AIM supported the Vietnam War and blamed media bias for U.S. loss in the war. During the Reagan administration, AIM criticized reporting about the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. During the Clinton administration, AIM pushed Vince Foster conspiracy theories.
During the George W. Bush administration, AIM accused the media of bias against the Iraq War, defended the Bush administration's use of torture, and campaigned to stop the United States from signing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
It described 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama as "the most radical candidate ever to stand at the precipice of acquiring his party's presidential nomination. It is apparent that he is a member of an international socialist movement." It also criticized the media's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The media's response?

Yeah, OK.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

Here's the story from a real news source

Opinion | A Democratic Dole for the Press

Why do journalists deserve subsidies more than, say, nurses?

www.wsj.com

It's a tax credit

And no, it hasn't made it into law. And it won't make it into law.

 

[hadit]

Local journalism is suffering since the advent of the internet

That's because anyone can report things to millions of people instantly. It's progress and a huge tax break for self-professed "journalists" is no more well advised than would have been subsidies for buggy whip makers.