Being woke has not only caused retailers, amusement park operators, Hollywood far-left movie makers and food/beverage distributors to lose business, even mainstream media continues to suffer from their propaganda and social engineering dishonesty.
How bad is it?
It is so bad, that most local newspapers have to rely on the United States Post Office to deliver their disinformation and indoctrination.
Amid delivery worker shortages, local newspapers have increasingly relied on the mail for distribution as they adapt to rapidly changing news consumption habits.
But alas, Democrat Senator Peter Welch (Vermont) introduced a bill with another fancy name, The Deliver for Democracy Act, to provide relief to local news outlets by curbing rate increases and holding the USPS accountable for on-time delivery.
(Note that between 1989 and 2024 Welch received contributions totaling $282,477 from Telecom industries, $238,036 from Industrial Unions and $178,467 from TV/Movies/Music industries)
The Senate votes on it Tuesday, May 28, 2024.
Will it help?
Certainly it applies pressure to the USPS, who rely on their deliveries with Joe Biden mandated electric powered mail trucks ($9.6 billion investment).
While Democrats and RINOS depend on getting their tainted hype to the local level, people’s faith in local news is almost as weak as their reliance on national news sources.
A look at who is sponsoring this bill tells savvy citizens everything they need to know:
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Media often look to these lawmakers for tax credits, vouchers and government subsidies.
The decline of local newspapers is accelerating so rapidly the past two years that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers it had as of 2005 (8,891) by the end of 2024 (less than 6,000).
Of those papers that still survive, a majority (4,790) publish weekly, not daily.
These trends reflect the share of Americans who say they often or sometimes get local news and information from a daily newspaper. That count has dropped from 43% in 2018 to 33% today.
Not only are fewer Americans getting local news from newspapers, but local daily newspapers are now much more likely to be accessed online than in print.
About two-thirds of U.S. adults who get news from daily newspapers (66%) do so digitally, whether through websites, apps, emails or social media posts that include content from the paper. Far fewer (31%) do so in print. In 2018, a larger share accessed local newspapers in print (54%) than digitally (43%).
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My city still has a daily newspaper that only recently began combining the Saturday and Sunday editions into a weekend edition with delivery on Saturday. Their staff has thinned out over the years as has the newspaper. We don’t subscribe. 🙂
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One can only hope that “The Valley News”, out of the Dartmouth area up the road, will go under, and others like it. Newspapers like “The Epoch Times” will stand more of a chance as the choices thin out. It figures that Vermont, aka “Little Russia” would be sponsoring this bill. I am all for a daily newspaper, but there’s a good reason for the decline. People are slowly waking up.
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