Many Americans are aware that members of the lame stream media have been lap dogs for the Democrats and the Deep State for years. Joe Biden is President of the United States because the media would not vet him and actually hid information from American voters. Now the Democrats are working to reward the media.
Adam Guillette is the current
president of Accuracy in Media and the former vice president of development for
Project Veritas. He found something in the $3.5 trillion spending bill that
should anger every American – a bailout for the media.
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.
What would happen to the media if
the government began paying half the salary of every journalist? Would you have
more or less trust in a tax-dollar funded media? Do you like or believe what
you hear on NPR? Guillette had definite words to say about such a situation.
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.
And if you think the media is already
hostile to conservatives, libertarians, Christians, business leaders,
southerners, and basically anyone who didn’t love Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s
D-N.Y., dress from the Met Gala, just imagine the disdain they’ll show us once
they’re funded by tax dollars. Also imagine the press coverage of any
politician that dares to oppose renewing – or increasing – their funding.
The idea that Americans should be forced
to financially support news outlets they don’t like is immoral, obnoxious, and
a threat to both free markets and free speech. It’s also outrageous when one
considers that proliferation of new media outlets that have already replaced
these dinosaurs.
In 2021, most Americans are getting their
news from independent podcasts, blogs, social media sites, and more. They
compensate these journalists using new payment services….
According to Guillette, progressives
“tried to redistribute your tax dollars to their allies in the media” at the
beginning of the pandemic. They first proposed a “dedicated media bailout”
after “news outlets lobbied Congress” for one. However, the dedicated bailout
did not “catch steam.” Accuracy in Media opposed both versions of the media
bailout. “Accuracy in Media activists sent emails, made phone calls, and even
delivered 50,787 anti-bailout petitions to the office of then-Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.” McConnell responded to the petitions by blocking
the proposal. “Bad businesses should be allowed to fail. Doing so creates space
in the market for better companies to take their place.”
Accuracy in Media is again in a fight
to defeat media bailouts. “Every American should tell their member of Congress
to oppose this idea,” as well as their local news outlets. “No journalist
subsidized with tax dollars should ever be taken seriously in this country.”
Journalists were working for the
Democrats when they totally ignored the scandals surrounding Hunter Biden just prior
to the 2020 presidential elections. However, “their allies in Washington, D.C.,
are going to reward them for their loyalty.” If so-called journalists “become
beneficiaries from the federal spoils system,” we can say goodbye to the good
that comes from a press free of governmental controls. Plus, Americans will
never trust the media again!
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