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<v Speaker 1>California Democrat politicians are getting worried that their media propaganda

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<v Speaker 1>machine is completely falling apart. That is why they're taking

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<v Speaker 1>legal action against Warner Brothers and Paramount in their merger,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're trying to use your taxpayer money to set

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<v Speaker 1>up state government propaganda programs across California. We've got the

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<v Speaker 1>details of what we're doing to fight back. This is

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<v Speaker 1>totalitarian regime stuff. When they can't keep the truth from

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<v Speaker 1>spreading organically, they try to create the propaganda machines with

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<v Speaker 1>your money. I'm Carl Tomo, chairman of Reform California and

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<v Speaker 1>a California state representative. We've always told you and we

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<v Speaker 1>all know that the media is liberal. There is no

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<v Speaker 1>journalism left in this country. They've been carrying the water

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<v Speaker 1>for Democrat politicians for so many years, twenty years plus now. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 1>there are exceptions to the rule. There are some conservative

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<v Speaker 1>outlets like Fox News and Newsmax, but for the most part,

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrats have had glowingly favorable coverage from the media enterprise,

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<v Speaker 1>whether it's Hollywood with entertainment productions that basically contain all

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<v Speaker 1>sorts of woke narratives and themes to actual network and

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<v Speaker 1>newspaper newsrooms that lie with a straight face. They completely lie,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm thinking of I don't know, MSNBC and CNN.

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<v Speaker 1>But things are changing, and that's because well this little

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<v Speaker 1>bad Boy and podcasts like the one you're watching right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Technology has resulted in the fragmentation of media. A lot

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<v Speaker 1>of these networks and entertainment companies have been losing a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of money and as a result of that, they've

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<v Speaker 1>had to shut down various news operations. They've lost ratings

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<v Speaker 1>and viewers and listeners, they were losing subscribers, and as

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<v Speaker 1>a result of all of that, they're starting to merge,

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<v Speaker 1>if not completely, just fold. California Democrats are seeing this coming,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's why they are desperately trying to save their

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<v Speaker 1>propaganda machine. And if they can't save a private sector

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<v Speaker 1>model of propaganda through the big media giants, then they're

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<v Speaker 1>just going to create the state propaganda through your tax

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<v Speaker 1>payer money. At Reform California, We've got the full story here,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm urging you to join the fight. We don't

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<v Speaker 1>just inform you about what's going on. We call you

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<v Speaker 1>to action. If you're sick and tired of you taxpayer

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<v Speaker 1>money being abused. If you're sick and tired of having

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<v Speaker 1>one sided media, then join our fight at Reform California.

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<v Speaker 1>Reform California dot org is our ground zero hub in

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<v Speaker 1>our campaign to take back California from the insanity of

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<v Speaker 1>the far left. Check out the stories we have up there.

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<v Speaker 1>We do need contributions. We can't provide this show without

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<v Speaker 1>your support. But more importantly, we're trying to change who's

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<v Speaker 1>inn office in California through our campaigns. We've endorsed a

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<v Speaker 1>whole slate of state legislators to break the Democrats supermajority

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<v Speaker 1>in Sacramento. And of course we've got a number of

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<v Speaker 1>ballot measures that we're supporting this November, including the Yes

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<v Speaker 1>on Prop thirty nine campaign for voter ID and Yes

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<v Speaker 1>politicians to raise your taxes. So check out that website,

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<v Speaker 1>Reform California dot org, sign up, volunteer, and ship in

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<v Speaker 1>a contribution. So here's what's going on. You've had a

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<v Speaker 1>major shift in media companies. They all start to consolidate

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<v Speaker 1>because they can't financially afford to operate because so many

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<v Speaker 1>viewers are leaving their networks they're just not interested in

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<v Speaker 1>propaganda anymore. They're waking up and they're finding information and

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<v Speaker 1>entertainment in other places. So there was a big merger.

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<v Speaker 1>The most recent one is between Paramount Skydance, which owns

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<v Speaker 1>CBS and a whole bunch of other properties in the

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<v Speaker 1>media space, and Warner Brothers. And of course Warner Brothers

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<v Speaker 1>owns CNN. We see the connection here. CBS News, CNN

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<v Speaker 1>and Paramount Skydance, which is buying Warner Brothers. Is owned

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<v Speaker 1>by a billionaire, David Ellison, who's seen as more conservative

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<v Speaker 1>than liberal, and at CBS one of the properties that

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<v Speaker 1>he owns in his media conglomerate. They become a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit more fact based in their news coverage by hiring

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<v Speaker 1>Bari Weiss, and she's gone in and house. You probably

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<v Speaker 1>heard about some of the sob stories that some of

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<v Speaker 1>the liberal reporters have been running out and saying that

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<v Speaker 1>they've been laid off and fired, well because they're not journalists,

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<v Speaker 1>and well CBS has been hamorrhaging a whole bunch of money. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>The politicians don't like this merger because they think Ellison

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<v Speaker 1>is too conservative. Here's Rob Bonta. Rob Bonta says he

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<v Speaker 1>worries for CNN's future at Paramount, citing Barie Weiss's CBS revamp.

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<v Speaker 1>So they know that with these mergers, their propaganda machine

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<v Speaker 1>is threatened. So what have they decided to do. They've

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<v Speaker 1>decided to take your government for their political benefit. They're

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<v Speaker 1>weaponizing the attorney general offices in the Democrat states to

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<v Speaker 1>try to sue to stop the merger. They're claiming anti trust.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a monopoly if Warner Brothers in Paramount merge. The

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<v Speaker 1>only monopoly we have here, honey, is liberal media is

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<v Speaker 1>a monolith, a complete monopoly. They have one sided view

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<v Speaker 1>of the world and feed one sided propaganda out there

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<v Speaker 1>to the American people, and they disguise it as news.

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<v Speaker 1>The fact that the market is starting to correct this nonsense,

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<v Speaker 1>because these companies are losing money because people are turning

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<v Speaker 1>them off because well, they don't want the propaganda. That

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<v Speaker 1>is a good thing. It cleanses the monopoly view from

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<v Speaker 1>the liberal media. Now I don't see any basis in

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<v Speaker 1>this case. It's a harassment suit. They're going to try

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<v Speaker 1>to get Ellison to commit to continue to fund and

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<v Speaker 1>provide left leaning coverage at certain properties. That's what this

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<v Speaker 1>is about. This is nothing but extortion. The suit won't

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<v Speaker 1>prevail because of the media fragmentation, the concept of a

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<v Speaker 1>monopoly in media that just doesn't exist anymore. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>why the FCC, the Fiddal Communications Commission, has wisely updated

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<v Speaker 1>its monopoly standards to say, look, you can have more

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<v Speaker 1>than one TV station in the market because most people

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<v Speaker 1>aren't watching TV anymore. They're getting information from you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the cell phone, or YouTube or a whole bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of other online and digital platforms. Digital and online has

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<v Speaker 1>resulted in more competition, not less, and so the notion

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<v Speaker 1>that these are monopoly trusts because of the consolidation of

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<v Speaker 1>cable networks and broadcast studios, that's not going to fly,

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<v Speaker 1>not with today's technology. If it was nineteen seventy five,

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<v Speaker 1>oh sure, this lawsuit might have legs, but not today.

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<v Speaker 1>And so as a result of the lawsuit, Paramount is

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<v Speaker 1>considering leaving California, taking a bunch of jobs with them.

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<v Speaker 1>Same fine, you want to harass us, intimidate us, extort us,

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<v Speaker 1>go move to another state. And the Lieutenant governor in

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<v Speaker 1>Tennessee actually sent a letter to Ellison saying, come on

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<v Speaker 1>here to Nashville, set up your headquarters in our state.

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<v Speaker 1>We won't harass you. We'll treat you with respect. And

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<v Speaker 1>so the deputy governor, the lieutenant governor in Tennessee, Stuart

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<v Speaker 1>mcwarter wrote in a letter quote, companies that choose Tennessee

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<v Speaker 1>find more than a favorable business climate. They find a

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<v Speaker 1>state committed to helping them succeed, not filing frivolous lawsuits

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<v Speaker 1>against them because they want to manipulate news coverage. What

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<v Speaker 1>I also saw was a separate lawsuit, a private lawsuit

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<v Speaker 1>from a union, the Writer's Guild of America Sue's Paramount,

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<v Speaker 1>claiming Warner's Brothers acquisition would take away jobs. Wait, you're

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<v Speaker 1>telling me that a labor union is complaining about jobs

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<v Speaker 1>being destroyed. That's like the devil complaining about sin. One

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<v Speaker 1>of the reasons why a lot of these media companies

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<v Speaker 1>are going under is because the high cost of operating

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<v Speaker 1>and all the unionized workers that they have to deal with.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why productions in non union states are so much

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<v Speaker 1>less expensive, and that's why production filming movie locations are

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<v Speaker 1>moving to the non union states. Doesn't take a rocket

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<v Speaker 1>scientist to figure that out. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom and

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<v Speaker 1>the politicians in California aren't just suing to disrupt this merger.

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<v Speaker 1>They're also trying to provide your taxpayer money to Hollywood

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<v Speaker 1>studios media outlets so that they can prop up propaganda

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<v Speaker 1>because obviously it's no longer financially penciling out because people

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<v Speaker 1>are leaving tuning out CNN and MSNBC. They're cutting off

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<v Speaker 1>their subscription from the New York Times and Sacramento b

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<v Speaker 1>and the propaganda papers, and so what Newsom and the

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats are doing is number one is they're offering tax credits.

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<v Speaker 1>The latest was a Hollywood tax cre but then even

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<v Speaker 1>that new sum gave a billion dollar, seven hundred fifty

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<v Speaker 1>million dollar tax credit to his buddies in the entertainment industry.

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<v Speaker 1>But then he just signed a budget that screwed it up.

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<v Speaker 1>Talk about incompetence. You can't even execute your grift and

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<v Speaker 1>your money laundering to these media outlets with these tax

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<v Speaker 1>credits properly. So he's going to come back and he's

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<v Speaker 1>going to fix this, mark my word. But then you

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<v Speaker 1>also have a bill Assembly Bill twenty two, twenty two

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<v Speaker 1>from Chris Ward. This is a bill that I did

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<v Speaker 1>a previous podcast on and I oppose, and I voted against,

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<v Speaker 1>and it would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in

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<v Speaker 1>funding for local newsrooms. So they not only have this

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<v Speaker 1>Hollywood tax credit for liberal propaganda films and shows, but

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<v Speaker 1>they're now also directly giving grants of taxpayer money to

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<v Speaker 1>these newsrooms under the guise of oh, we need community

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<v Speaker 1>news again. We've got more than enough information floating out there.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't need state funded propaganda outfits with our taxpayer money.

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<v Speaker 1>And even if it's not taxpayer money, the government is

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<v Speaker 1>demanding that technology companies put money up, private money up

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<v Speaker 1>in exchange for leniency or mercy on other government policies.

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<v Speaker 1>A few years ago, Google was shaken down along with

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<v Speaker 1>Meta to support local journalism through private grants. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>the private grants that's right, directed and approved by the

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<v Speaker 1>Governor's office and announced through the Governor's office.

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<v Speaker 2>Governor News some announces twenty million dollars in grant funding

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<v Speaker 2>matched by Google to support local journalism. Eligible news resoms

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<v Speaker 2>can get up to two andre fiighty thousand dollars each

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<v Speaker 2>to support original reporting, pure propaganda.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, this is fascism, this is totalitarian regime. Stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>When they can't keep the truth from spreading organically, they

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<v Speaker 1>try to create the propaganda machines with your money. And

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<v Speaker 1>so that's what's going on here. Make no mistake about it.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not about saving jobs. This is about another

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<v Speaker 1>shakedown of politicians, Liberal politicians in California trying to hold

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<v Speaker 1>on to a propaganda machine that literally is imploding because you,

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<v Speaker 1>the viewer and the reader and the subscriber, you're leaving

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<v Speaker 1>in droves. And that's a healthy thing. That's the market

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<v Speaker 1>saying we don't want the propaganda. But of course these

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<v Speaker 1>democrats trying to keep the machine alive for their own

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<v Speaker 1>political benefit, not for the good of journalism. Check out

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<v Speaker 1>Reform California dot org. Join the fight. We've got a

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