{"id":44236,"date":"2018-08-06T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/?p=44236"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T19:22:22","slug":"gov-murphy-nj-taxpayers-prop-up-failing-newspapers-with-5-mil-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/gov-murphy-nj-taxpayers-prop-up-failing-newspapers-with-5-mil-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Murphy: NJ Taxpayers Prop Up Failing Newspapers With $5 Mil Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NJ Governor Phil Murphy continued his push towards a more progressive state. Murphy announced that local taxpayers will now be supporting news organizations, with $5 million in subsidies.<\/p>\n<h2>Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey Democrats, Socialist candidates: in favor of State sponsored media.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"New Jersey Taxpayer Funded Journalism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aYMbCaL2P6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Omaha News: Any news organization that is funded by government will be either overtly or covertly controlled by government, in at least some form or fashion&#8230;a picture of the burglar tossing a sedative-filled steak to the family watchdog comes to mind. Horrible idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This seems like a bad idea. Government sponsored media. Who decides what is or isn\u2019t biased? When are someone\u2019s tax dollars being used to promote speech they do not want made with their money?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Fleischman (@FlashReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlashReport\/status\/1014023877406552064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Still, some harsh critics of the bill remain. From<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2018\/07\/new-jersely-local-journalism-civic-information-consortium-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> OBSERVER<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A recent op-ed published in POLITICO Magazine titled, \u201cThe State of New Jersey Wants to Subsidize News. Uh-oh,\u201d questioned the journalistic integrity of government-funded journalism. The article points to the reluctance of state-sponsored sources such as PBS and NPR to go after the government aggressively enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the consortium\u2019s ruling body is top-heavy with government leaders and employees should give us pause,\u201d POLITICO\u2019s senior media writer Jack Shafer writes. \u201cHow can a nonprofit news organization directed by people in the government even pretend to be independent? Will it be able to criticize the governor? The Legislature?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ Governor Phil Murphy continued his push towards a more progressive state. Murphy announced that local taxpayers will now be supporting news organizations, with $5 million in subsidies. Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey Democrats, Socialist candidates: in favor of State sponsored media. Omaha News: Any news organization that is funded by government will be either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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