{"id":1782867,"date":"2022-12-21T12:57:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782867"},"modified":"2022-12-21T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:04:35","slug":"omnibus-bill-taxpayers-to-erect-monument-to-journalists-in-d-c-give-over-1b-subsidy-to-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omnibus-bill-taxpayers-to-erect-monument-to-journalists-in-d-c-give-over-1b-subsidy-to-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus Bill: Taxpayers To Erect Monument to Journalists in D.C., Give Over $1B Subsidy to Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomnibus-bill-taxpayers-to-erect-monument-to-journalists-in-d-c-give-over-1b-subsidy-to-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782867&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22008830410521-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Taxpayers will fund the erection of press statues in Washington, D.C., along with handing out media subsidies worth over $1 billion, if the Omnibus bill is passed into law in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">According to section 708 of the bill, the establishment media will be given a \u201ccommemorative\u201d location in Washington, D.C., to honor \u201cjournalists\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The location of a commemorative work to commemorate the commitment of the United States to a free press by honoring journalists who sacrificed their lives in service to that cause within Area I, as depicted on the map entitled \u2018\u2018Commemorative Areas Washington, DC and Environs\u2019\u2019, numbered 869\/86501 B, and dated June 24, 2003, is approved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statues will be located in \u201cArea I,\u201d according to the bill, which <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/08\/Map_Number_869-86501_-_US_National_Park_Service_-_24_June_2003.jpg\">appears<\/a> to encompass areas of the Mall in Washington, D.C., along with the White House, Tidal Basin, Theodore Roosevelt Island, and the Potomac shoreline in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>No budget or allocation of money was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/JRQ121922.PDF\">disclosed<\/a> in the bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The omnibus bill also provides taxpayer money to the establishment media. In section 407, taxpayers will give over $500 million to\u00a0the Corporation for Public Broad (CPB) and $600 million for infrastructure within the public media system:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (\u2018\u2018CPB\u2019\u2019), as authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which shall be available within limitations specified by that Act, for the fiscal year 2025, $535,000,000:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In addition, for the costs associated with replacing and upgrading the public broadcasting interconnection system and other technologies and services that create infrastructure and efficiencies within the public media system, $60,000,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to CPB\u2019s website, the entity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpb.org\/faq\">is<\/a> \u201cthe steward of the federal government\u2019s investment in public media and supports the operations of nearly 1,500 locally owned and operated public television and radio stations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the networks that are under the CPB\u2019s umbrella are PBS and NPR. Both networks have board distribution. PBS distributes programming to about 350 stations throughout the nation. NPR has over 260 member stations in the nation that distributes to about 1,000 stations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Critics claim the federal government should not finance the media because funding often comes with strings attached, leading to biased reporting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>For example, in 2021, NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/31\/983159102\/hunter-bidens-memoir-beautiful-things-seeks-to-tell-just-where-hes-been\">published<\/a> false claims in a book review of Hunter Biden\u2019s book that Hunter\u2019s laptop was Russian disinformation. It has since issued a correction, referencing the now\u00a0debunked <em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0story on October 19, 2020, which used \u201cdozens of former intel officials\u201d to push a false and misleading narrative about the origins of Hunter\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentPasted2\">The discredited\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0story was published to discredit Breitbart News\u2019 Emma-Jo Morris\u2019 \u201cLaptop from Hell\u201d story she first broke in the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0just days prior. The discredited\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0headline still\u00a0<a class=\"ContentPasted2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\">remains<\/a>\u00a0on the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA previous version of this story said U.S. intelligence had discredited the laptop story. U.S. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect,\u201d the correction reads.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\"><span><i>Twitter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8. He is the author of\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook\/dp\/B08PPYQSDZ%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\"><span><i>Politics of Slave Morality<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers will fund the erection of press statues in Washington, D.C., along with handing out media subsidies worth over $1 billion, if the Omnibus bill is passed into law in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,10926,3895,5458,10924,3643,6093,5313,4188,5636,7991,3972,3819,10925,8956],"class_list":["post-1782867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-1b","tag-bill","tag-bongino","tag-d-c","tag-erect","tag-give","tag-journalists","tag-media","tag-monument","tag-omnibus","tag-over","tag-report","tag-subsidy","tag-taxpayers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}