|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
The state of the conservative movement is such that Soros can take over some of the largest radio networks in the country and Dems can begin building a massive taxpayer-subsidized media in plain sight, yet stories on these subjects will get a fraction of the attention of the latest influencer feuds and assorted nonsense.
In April, I wrote about what was happening in New York.
The state budget, set to be finalized Saturday, includes the nation’s first payroll tax credit for local news organizations in a bid to encourage new hiring amid the ongoing struggles of journalism outlets to cover their communities.
The late addition to the $237 billion budget allows eligible outlets to receive a 50 percent refundable credit for the first $50,000 of a journalist’s salary, up to a total of $300,000 per outlet.
This is fairly mild compared to what’s coming out of California.
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would levy a “data extraction mitigation fee” on companies such as Google and Meta in order to provide media outlets in the state with a tax credit meant to pay for more journalists. Senate Bill 1327, by Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Contra Costa, would raise around $500 million annually to be split among California news outlets, depending on their size and whether they offer employee health and retirement benefits.
Facebook and Google obviously won’t be paying it, you will. The Big Tech firms will just charge advertisers more and they’ll raise their prices.
But where the money is coming from matters less than where it’s going.
Faced with an economic apocalypse in the media, especially local media, Dems are working to turn the whole enterprise into one big taxpayer-subsidized monstrosity. And they’re doing it while Republicans are sleeping or playing along.
I’ve been writing about this for nearly a decade and despite the fact that the transformation of the media into nonprofits is a game changer, there’s very little interest in the subject. And there’ll be very little interest in it until it’s far enough along that there’s nothing left to do but complain about it.
The media will become a taxpayer-subsidized state propaganda enterprise.
1984 here we come!
correction: 1984 here we are!
We already have to hate `Goldstein and not just for 5 minutes either.
Reminds me of the 1500s. Government control of the media. Miscreants to be drawn and quartered.
The citizens are paying for the very rope that is intended to hang them…
Not the citizens, the taxpayers. Not all citizens are taxpayers and practically all of the citizens, including the taxpayers, are receiving some subsidy, welfare program, or other benefit paid by the taxpayers, including public schools, highways, bridges, libraries, sports stadiums, hospitals, funded by the taxpayers.
It’s a cannibal orgy of altruism out there.
Try telling conservatives that Medicaid, Social Security, and public schools will be terminated by Donald Trump in the next four years and Joe Biden will win by a landslide.
“We are not a capitalist system any longer: we are a mixed economy, i.e., a mixture of capitalism and statism, of freedom and controls. A mixed economy is a country in the process of disintegration, a civil war of pressure-groups looting and devouring one another.” – Ayn Rand
When has Donald Trump said he will eliminate Medicaid, SS, and public schools? He never said that.
D-rats always project what they are and will do.
The 16th century was an era of Christian theocracy.
Heretics and blasphemers to be burned at the stake.
Jews to be kept in their ghettoes, kept to only a few professions, and subjected to Christian pogroms every six months.
And they say Christianity is a religion of peace.
“The [Christian] Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason.” – Ayn Rand
OH MY! You said something sensible.
That vwas 500 years ago, moron.
Well I never listen to radio at all as it’s just ugly noise presented as “music” and commercials, and I threw out the TV 22 years ago and don’t miss it one bit as it’s just Marxist agitprop and commercials. If I want news I know where to find it and it’s not on radio or TV.
Sounds like just one more chip out of the foundation of this Republic and another step toward Socialism/Communism.
Regime media is already there. Now taxpayer funding will be added to funding provided by Soros et. al.
I have worked with shut ins and other people confined by health issues, age etc. They often watch TV all day. This is the main audience this will have. Everyone else seeks information and entertainment elsewhere.
It will be paid for by us suckers, but may not be consumed by us.