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Mainstream media and government in cahoots.
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An article by John Humphreys, ‘Big Government plans to bailout big media’, suggests the governments and the media are definitely in cahoots.
The older media is dying out (more and more people are shunning it for ongoing options online) and the political class intends to help them. They don't want to lose their mouthpiece. The “old-school” media, losing the narrative and advertising revenues and the political class are working on a policy that would tax digital platforms and provide a “large subsidy” to the old media “to help them stay dominant”. It's referred to as a ‘news bargaining initiative’.
What it really would be is a “massive government bailout”. And more government help for the MSM, more dependence on the government, and vice versa.
The Albanese government has released draft legislation that they intend to put to parliament later this year.
According to the author, it looks as if the Coalition and the Greens are “broadly supportive, so it's likely to pass”. No surprise there.
The policy would tax the platforms that are now widely used, for an alternative to the MSM, in order to subsidise the now sickly MSM.
It's all about the government using the MSM's help to maintain control over the news narrative.