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NBC News Digital, NY Times and WashPost’s Union Votes to Request 'Public Financing for Journalism’
NewsBusters ^ | 5/4/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 05/04/2020 3:30:32 PM PDT by JV3MRC

One of the premier national unions for liberal outlets such as NBC News Digital, The Washington Post and The New York Times actually voted to request the government finance the news industry with taxpayer dollars. Surprisingly, it was The Times that released the story Sunday May 3. The article noted how the president of the “most prominent journalists’ union in the country, the NewsGuild, crossed a line that once seemed unimaginable: He asked the government for money.” Then came the kicker: “The guild’s leaders voted to request “‘public financing for journalism.’” NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss said that “One thing we can't remain objective about is our own demise."

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To: Steve_Seattle

They take comments on Twitter and FB but I don’t use Twitter or go to FB.


41 posted on 05/04/2020 3:56:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Steve_Seattle

PS: I’ve never had a problem with them although I do have several AD blockers running.


42 posted on 05/04/2020 3:57:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: JV3MRC

This is the biggest joke I’ve heard in a long time. Denigrate half the market due to your bias, then ask them to seek government bailouts.


43 posted on 05/04/2020 3:57:28 PM PDT by FLCowboy, (Democrats relish groveling in the dirt)
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To: Rummyfan

Yes.


44 posted on 05/04/2020 3:58:13 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: humblegunner

Why is your account listed as “banned or suspended”?


45 posted on 05/04/2020 3:58:47 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

I guess the unions are getting their cut of the DS propaganda dollars.


46 posted on 05/04/2020 3:59:37 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: JV3MRC
Why is your account listed as “banned or suspended”?

Because I engaged in too much self promotion and got Zotted.

Looks like you're about 96% there, spunky.

47 posted on 05/04/2020 4:01:02 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: JV3MRC

I would pay them NOT to publish.


48 posted on 05/04/2020 4:10:57 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Starboard

It’s like having prison inmates pay their jailers’ salaries.


49 posted on 05/04/2020 4:11:58 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: SkyDancer

Thanks. Same here about Twitter and Facebook.


50 posted on 05/04/2020 4:26:13 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

clearly the shut-downs the FakeNewsMSM cheers on relentlessly is affecting the amount of ads.

time for FakeNewsMSM to call for the re-opening of the economy, because the shut-downs were based on FakeModels anyway.

finally, hard to give money to “journalism” when there is so little of it in the FakeNewsMSM.


51 posted on 05/04/2020 4:41:46 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: max americana

It is also turning the MSM into open and official Pravda.


52 posted on 05/04/2020 4:43:13 PM PDT by arthurus (sx)
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To: JV3MRC
Now that takes some chutzpah...
53 posted on 05/04/2020 4:44:10 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: JV3MRC
That's what advertisements are for.

You just want to make yourselves Pravda *officially*.

54 posted on 05/04/2020 4:46:07 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: JV3MRC

If they produced a decent product people would buy it.


55 posted on 05/04/2020 4:50:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: JV3MRC

They already have public financing for journalism. It’s called the free market economy. The public finances the operation when they buy the tripe being sold. And if they mean financing through our taxpayer dollars then they already have NPR what more do they need? Anything more and it becomes a government controlled operation. Or are they trying to do what higher education did? Unions are outdated and not necessary, they should have gone away like the dodo bird.


56 posted on 05/04/2020 5:22:17 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: JV3MRC
I'd go along with that as long as the money is spent on the costs of transporting all of the Nation's so-called journalists to long-term housing at Gitmo...

OTOH, maybe there is a serious plot behind the coming release of Daniel Pearl's killers... I believe the U.S. will snatch him up when he is released and take him to Gitmo...

Hmmmmm...

57 posted on 05/04/2020 5:29:54 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: JV3MRC

They don’t provide a public service.


58 posted on 05/04/2020 5:48:29 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of the Great King!!!)
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To: JV3MRC

What journalism?


59 posted on 05/04/2020 7:09:50 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: JV3MRC
NBC News Digital, NY Times and WashPost’s Union Votes to Request 'Public Financing for Journalism’

Dear NBC, NYT, and WaPo:

Eat my ass.

60 posted on 05/04/2020 7:11:52 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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