Taxpayer-Funded Politico Subscriptions Are Tip of Iceberg of Real State-Media Scandal
We have been systematically advantaging Regime Media, including through funding a Censorship-Industrial Complex that has worked to suppress and destroy its competitors
Obscene $8M Politico payout just one way feds reward their lapdog media
As the federal government’s outrageous spending draws the Trump administration’s hugely deserved scrutiny, one of this week’s many scandals is that We the Taxpayers have been shelling out millions to buy bureaucrats subscriptions to left-leaning media sources.
Yet as offensive as these expenditures are — and as grotesque as is the appearance of government rewarding its friendly propagandists with our money — it’s just a footnote to a far graver and more consequential scandal: That the feds have showered incalculably greater benefits on de facto regime media outlets by seeking to systematically suppress conservative and independent competitors through the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
To be sure, it’s perverse that (per USASpending.gov), we’ve forked over $8.2 million over the last 12 months across a bevy of agencies — including for pricey premium subscription services — to Politico, the chosen conduit for the notorious letter from 51 former intelligence officials seeking to discredit The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020.
Likewise the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year lavished on The New York Times, rewarded with a Pulitzer for unquestioningly printing the leaks and lies fed to it by government officials to spin up the Russiagate hoax .
Simply put, the American people should not be on the hook for news subscriptions to biased sources, or arguably to any sources at all.
But for those in conservative and independent media, these payments to competitors just add insult to injury — injury in truth not just to such outlets but to the republic.
I’ve got the story in today’s New York Post.