The Left’s Worst Idea This Week (Its only Wednesday. Stay tuned)

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Power Line

Steven Hayward

March 20, 2024

As you may know, the mainstream media is going through massive layoffs, to which a paraphrase of the great Oscar Wilde line comes to mind—one has to have a heart of stone not to laugh at massive media layoffs, given the increasing partisan mendacity and advancing mediocrity of the mainstream media.

So guess what is proposed to reverse this dire situation? Behold The Jacobin (which is certainly an appropriate name for the publication):

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.

Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

In other words, welfare for journalists. Many of whom went to fancy universities and graduate journalism programs. In other words, another forced wealth transfer from working class Americans to elites. Rush Limbaugh used to mock our “state-run media,” and now the left is calling literally for state-run media.

In fact some of this is already starting to happen. The Jacobin story notes:

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Joe Scarborough $20,000,000

Mika Brzezinski  $8,000,000

$28,000,000

Their house.