Many rural organizations depended on the community paper to announce meetings, church dinners, etc. Facebook fills in some but it's not the same as a having a newspaper.
newspapers to receive assistance, but for local papers to have that assistance come from the very institutions we expect a free press to be the watchdog over, in my opinion does not bode well. To expect a paper to freely and honestly critique the source of their financial life jacket, if you will, at the very least raises the issue of the appearance of a conflict of interest or in fact a conflict of interest.
I am confused. You state that support for newspapers is in the 1.75 billion package or at least in and out depending on the version of the bill. I was not aware of that and fully supportive. Now for the confusion part. You state that Stefanik supports some other bill supporting local newspapers. Never heard of that bill. Are they one and the same thing.
Stefanik is very good at reading the will of the people, and at recognizing when she can do something popular without it costing her anything. This will not pass, so she can get away with claiming to support it. How would she vote if it was going to be close? However the GOP leadership wanted her to......
Stefanik probably wants the newspapers saved so she can try to spread her lies. I know The Post Star calls her out, but I don't know about others.
Just words if she has no intention of supporting the reconciliation bill.
Many rural organizations depended on the community paper to announce meetings, church dinners, etc. Facebook fills in some but it's not the same as a having a newspaper.
My guess is the WDT or another friendly media outlet reached out to her. This costs her nothing and her vote doesn't matter
I understand the need for local
newspapers to receive assistance, but for local papers to have that assistance come from the very institutions we expect a free press to be the watchdog over, in my opinion does not bode well. To expect a paper to freely and honestly critique the source of their financial life jacket, if you will, at the very least raises the issue of the appearance of a conflict of interest or in fact a conflict of interest.
I am confused. You state that support for newspapers is in the 1.75 billion package or at least in and out depending on the version of the bill. I was not aware of that and fully supportive. Now for the confusion part. You state that Stefanik supports some other bill supporting local newspapers. Never heard of that bill. Are they one and the same thing.
God bless Ms. Cantwell all over the place. And we should write Elise and thank her for doing this extremely impressed thing!!!
Stefanik is very good at reading the will of the people, and at recognizing when she can do something popular without it costing her anything. This will not pass, so she can get away with claiming to support it. How would she vote if it was going to be close? However the GOP leadership wanted her to......