Most of the leftwing media in the West is heavily funded by governments.
It's pretty extreme here in Germany.
The government runs the biggest media empire straight up itself which they finance by levying a mandatory fee on all citizens.
As for "private" media, if they are small enough they're run as NGOs and get grants directly from the government. If they're too big to technically count as non-profit the government has to launder that money. They either give it to "independent" NGOs who then forward that money to the media or the government disguises payments as ad campaigns.
It's a whole propaganda industry that mostly relies on governments paying them.
Canada and Québec both voted massive funding plans for public and ''private'' news media under the argument that we needed to keep journalists jobs for ''quality information''.
After the funding was voted, there were massive layoffs and massive bonuses to managers.
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From what I just read numerous departments were paying politico 100-200k a year for “E&E subscriptions”
Most of the leftwing media in the West is heavily funded by governments.
It's pretty extreme here in Germany.
The government runs the biggest media empire straight up itself which they finance by levying a mandatory fee on all citizens.
As for "private" media, if they are small enough they're run as NGOs and get grants directly from the government. If they're too big to technically count as non-profit the government has to launder that money. They either give it to "independent" NGOs who then forward that money to the media or the government disguises payments as ad campaigns.
It's a whole propaganda industry that mostly relies on governments paying them.
Same thing in Canada. Trudeau was elected because he promised massive amounts of government money to all mainstream media, and to keep the CBC afloat.
Canada and Québec both voted massive funding plans for public and ''private'' news media under the argument that we needed to keep journalists jobs for ''quality information''.
After the funding was voted, there were massive layoffs and massive bonuses to managers.