Author: Wallace White
According to federal data, they inform about many corporate media and their parent companies in cash taxpayers from government clients.
Sales points such as PoliticoIN The New York TimesIN Wall Street Journal In accordance with the public acts of American expenses, native companies Dow Jones & Co Inc., Associated Press and others got in dollars of taxpayers from countless federal agencies. Trust in corporate media has fallen to the lowest levels from at least 1972, because numerous reporting errors from the main sales points still ponderous down trust.
Politico In total, he took a total of 35,018 $ 269 in obligated taxpayers’ dollars in the form of contracts from 2015 to the present day, and some long -term contracts extend until 2029, According to for expenses. PRO politician Subscriptions account for USD 8.2 million expenses, which include network frames in addition to granting access to paid content, According to on the Politico website.
AND subscription Politico Pro can cost around USD 10,000 and is widely used among employees of the hill of both sides. Politico clients were the Department of Defense (DU), the Department of Agriculture and the President’s Executive Office (EOP) among many other agencies, in accordance with the data of expenses.
Politico CEO of goals Sheikholesla said on Wednesday note For the staff, that the store “never be a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies”, and “the overwhelming majority” of its clients is in the private sector.
Dow Jones & Co Inc. He won over $ 4 million in government contracts, which included purchases of the content of WSJ from DOD, EOP and the Treasury Department among many other government clients, According to to issue data. Other purchases in total included Dow Jones Risk Compliance Services, Factiva, Business Intelligence Database and access to Barron, another sales belonging to the parent company.
AP and related “recipient child” Press Association, Inc. have received one of the largest investments from the government, reaching over $ 50 million in prizes for various services, According to to issue data.
AP received an agreement worth $ 19 502 333 from the American Global Media Agency (AGM), extending from 2017 to 2022,, According to for expenditure records. In addition, AGM is to get at least $ 5 million in 2027 to have “access to the entire enterprise to wire services, including text, video, photos and images.”
AP he said CNN in a statement on Wednesday that the government has long been AP – both through democratic and republican administrations. “
“He uses a license of impartial AP journalism, as did thousands of information services and customers around the world,” said AP CNN. “Governments often have contracts with information organizations for their content.”
Department of State also handed According to the expenditure act, according to the expenses, by over USD 400,000 to AP in 2019-2024 to lend a hand expand foreign sales in the Pacific, with countries such as Laos, Timor-Wimens and other “nations or territories on the island of the Pacific “.
. NOW According to the expenses, he received a total of USD 3,107,520 of obliged contracts in the years 2003–2025, with a significant part of the contracts to the newspaper in print and online. NYT customers are DOD, Veteran Department (VA), Transport Department and others.
Other purchases included ads of various agencies, including the American Air Force and VA, according to the data.
Trust for national information networks is 30% lower in 2024 than in 2016, According to to Pew Research Center. In addition, the data show that republicans and teenage people are equally likely that they will trust social media in news, such as established national information networks.
False or misleading incidents only caused the distrust of corporate media among society.
Politico was parroting sentiment that the history of the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation” in 2020, with two former reporters claim They were advised about the assumption of history by higher staff. Hunter Biden was convicted In the case of three crimes related to the purchase of weapons in June 2024, in the Department of Justice recognition laptop as true and using it as evidence in their case against Hunter.
However, Hunter received pardon From the father, President Joe Biden, December 1.
NYT told the story in 2021 claim Customs and borders protection agents (CBP) pushed Haitan migrants with whip on the southern border in Del Rio, Texas. However, the CBP investigation was not found a year later evidence It takes place, but NYT did not take off their history.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt he said At the Wednesday press conference that the taxpayer financed the political subscriptions of Politico Pro would be canceled.
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Wallace White is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
