Earlier this week, a scandal hit the political-journalism complex that was on par with the way the “payola” scandal rocked the popular music world in the 1950s; see NEW: Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for ‘Politico’ Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There. Analysis of open-source federal documents showed that many news organizations had received obscene amounts of money from the federal government in the guise of “subscriptions.”
President Trump reacted quickly to the news that the federal government was spending tens of millions of dollars each year to support media outlets. This kind of support is wrong in a free society, and it is even more wrong when the outlets are basically hostile to the administration.
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