Subsidies for "private" sector newsrooms cost taxpayers $170 million last year, the Department of Finance (and propaganda) confessed

[DisobeyTyranny]

$170M More For Newsrooms​

Subsidies for private sector newsrooms cost taxpayers $170 million last year, the Department of Finance reported yesterday. Publishers successfully lobbied for taxpayers’ aid seven years ago on a promise that subsidies would be transitional and temporary: "There does need to be a deadline." READ MORE

 

[brutana_dilewski]

Yep, gotta keep paying the news companies to speak 'The Truth'. Controlling the narrative is worth every penny in their eyes.

 

[ex_libris]

Worst media in the English speaking world, bar none.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

imagine what that money could do for actual Canadians if it was distributed to us

 

[Hirudinea]

What price democracy? Looks like it can be bought for about $170 mil.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

In someways u are correct. Viewership is in the tank however so what they are pushing isnt reaching as many people as it once did

 

[censorthisss]

And this is just a drop in the bucket. CBC got $1,400,000,000 for one year.

Meanwhile, taxpayer funding to CBC will surpass $1.4 billion this year, according to the federal government’s Main Estimates. The broadcaster has spent about $5.4 billion of taxpayers’ money over the last five years, according to the government of Canada.

Source: https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/cbc-uses-tax-dollars-to-hire-more-bureaucrats,-less-journalists

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Money laundering 101

Sad