Journalists welcome Biden bill's $1.6B tax credit to local news outlets, despite ethics questions

Fox News ^ | 11/12/2021 | AP

[marcusmaximus]

Leading journalists acknowledge that it's awkward to receive financial assistance from a government they cover independently.

President Biden's $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support in response to the decline of local news.

The help would come in the form of a payroll tax credit for companies that employ eligible local journalists. The measure would allow newspapers, digital news outlets and radio and television stations to claim a tax credit of $25,000 the first year and $15,000 the next four years for up to 1,500 journalists.

[Lurker]

Ethics and journalism go together like peanut butter and dirty socks.

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[Carl Vehse]

"Ethics and journalism go together like peanut butter and dirty socks soiled diapers.

There. Closer analogy.

[blackdog]

Imagine the bad news in year #4. Or else!

[Seruzawa]

Lol. Journalism and ethics. Ha hah hah. Is this the Babylon Bee?

[PGR88]

Crony-capitalist fascism at its worst.

Local old-style media is already a near monopoly, who exist not by ad revenue or better reporting, but rather, by monopoly position. Thus they have long been beholden to report state-sponsored news.

[dblshot]

You get what you pay for.

[BiglyCommentary]

Liberal wokey news ops are circling the drain and this is nothing but a bailout and subsidy.

[1Old Pro]

So basically none of this trillion is actually going to roads and bridges.

[cgbg]

Whores never complain when their pimp gives them a little extra pocket money...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Ethics?”

Hahahahaha!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It will line a lot of deserving pockets in the District of Criminals, and that’s all you peasants need to know.

[kiryandil]

They’re already taking steps on The Twittsewer and Fecesbook to make “journalists” a protected class - you’ll be suspended if you criticize them or their lies.

[tsomer]

Anyone accepting that money is, almost by definition, no longer a journalist.

Call them scriveners, propagandists, mouthpieces, agents, prostitutes— but not journalists.

[SmokingJoe]

Leading journalists acknowledge that it's awkward to receive financial assistance from a government they cover independently.

These swamp dwellers have never covered the Dementia Joe regime independently. They are part of this illegitimate regime.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Shouldn’t “journalists” be in quotes?

[marcusmaximus]

Prostitutes.

[mewzilla]

Presstitution pays.

[mewzilla]

Presstitutes.

[Jeff Chandler]

A payroll tax credit means that journalists will get SS and Medicare for free, paid for by their victims.