Manchin Shuts Down Build Back Better Boondoggle, Journos Hardest Hit

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Dec. 20, 2021

Journos were hoping they were going to get massive tax cuts and get paid nearly $2 billion to become de facto state media outlets thanks to a buried provision in the Biden regime's Build Back Better bill.

Alas, they'll have to continue depending on globalist billionaires directly to fund their operations, at least for the time being.

BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he can't vote for a $2 trillion social safety net bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s signature legislation. https://t.co/MvhX9TKgzE
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 19, 2021

Poynter, a "fact-checking" operation which produces nothing but propaganda, had been hyping the provision dubbed the "Local Journalism Sustainability Act" for at least two months.

An act tucked inside the federal spending bill could deliver as much as $1 billion to subsidize local journalists’ salaries.https://t.co/CCidKM2luk
— Poynter (@Poynter) October 15, 2021

The actual giveaway in the bill was $1.67 billion, in journospeak that somehow got rounded down to "as much as $1 billion."

The bill provides for a 50% credit on the salaries of local journalists up to $50,000 in the first year after passage and 30% for the following four years. Various local outlets, not just newspapers, qualify.https://t.co/xRItKpdeNv
— Poynter (@Poynter) December 16, 2021

This is why the mood is so gloomy throughout the controlled press.

There were audible sighs when @jonkarl broke the news to the panel that Joe Manchin officially came out as a hard no on #BuildBackBetter. These people aren't journalists pic.twitter.com/AaKTmMYDuT
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) December 19, 2021

Controlled media journos and their billionaire owners should have to pay extra taxes as penance for the trash they produce.

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