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Jacobin Demands State-Funded Media to Stop Flood of Journalist Layoffs – Twitchy

March 21, 2024
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Layoffs are hitting media. Hard.

And it’s richly deserved, given all the nonsense they’ve engaged in for years.

That’s hilarious.

Setting up a state-run media. What could possibly go wrong?

More from Jacobin:

Solutions are particularly urgent now. In 2023, local newspaper closures shot up to a dismal 2.5 per week. More than two hundred counties — almost all places where working-class and poor people live — are now “news deserts” where people no longer know what’s happening at their statehouses or their courthouses.

Near-term policy reform is just the beginning, of course. To create an equitable and sustainable media ecosystem, we should change our mindset about and framing of what media is. Not-for-profit media must become the norm — not the exception. Media, after all, is a form of education.

We should, for example, consider a return to a Works Progress Administration (WPA) model, where 6,600 reporters were sent out into the field, underwritten by the government, as part of the New Deal’s response to the Great Depression, covering the lives of some of the poorest Americans. Our organization, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, is a version of this — only, given the absence of WPA-style policy programs of late, without the public funding part. We support hundreds of journalists, a good number of them financially struggling, to report on their experiences and communities and then copublish them nationally. But we are a staff of four, and this is a nonprofit that we raise money for each year. The government needs a version of what we are doing on a much larger scale.

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The media are already an arm of the Democrat party. So let’s publicly fund them so they have a vested interest in keeping one party in power.

The only ones to blame for mass layoffs in the media are members of the media.

Yep. It’s what they want.

They almost have it, except for the public funding.

We refuse, too.

Indeed. Learn to code.

Yep.

There’s the way to save journalism. But they won’t do that.

Exactly.

The bottomless wallet of the American taxpayer.

What’s there worth saving?

A media that lies, despises us, and parrots Democrat party propaganda?

Why save that?

Yep.

It’s our fault.

Because reasons.

Because they’d get free taxpayer money for doing what they already do.

Yes they do. We all know it.

They’ll never do that. Ever.

They have no idea how much we dislike them. None whatsoever.

Because they’re surrounded by people who adore them, they can’t fathom people exist who don’t.

That’s short, sweet, and to the point.

No.

Sums it up nicely.

Also a necessary skill.

Yes they do.

The market has spoken.

We don’t know how they’d get any worse if taxpayer funded, but we’re sure they’d find a way.

You mean the country poised to imprison people for life for ‘hate speech’? That’s exactly what they want.

They want to turn us into China, Russia, or Cuba.

Commies gonna commie.

They’re disappointed we don’t live in China or Russia.

No bail outs.

No we don’t.

And that would be quite the accomplishment, but it would get worse.

Hopefully.

‘Publicly funded’ anything isn’t the answer.

Exactly. Which is why they’re having to lay off staff and shutter publications.

Heh. This was a very common reply.

A girl can dream.

Yes you do. 

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