Morning anons, have a theory i would like some input /assistance with digging ideas

Been chewing on this overnight and I think I might have something.

THEORY

Many of the newspapers, magazines, and online “news” organizations were non profitable until the repeal of the smith mundt act in 2013. They then began receiving funds from the US govt to push propaganda onto the US populace. One President Trump came into office, he shut off that supply line, which is why we now see so many of the organizations closing up shop, downsizing, and restructuring. They couldn’t keep their bloated budgets afloat without the steady influx of these funds. So where did these funds come from? Remember Obama’s “justice” slush fund? Pushing funds to leftist organizations? I believe those funds were given to third party organizations, who then gave money to these news organizations to push leftist propaganda.

So the things i would need help trying to figure out:

1: Where would be a good place to find publicly available data on news organizations profitability prior to 2013, between 2013 and 2017, and then after 2017? (looking specifically at Salon.com and huffingtonpost as they are what I personally perceive as the most obvious cases of this).

2: Articles on the Smith-Mundt Act - not the act itself, but pro or con articles indicating bias by organizations who could be shown as having it affect their bottom line.

3: Articles regarding Obama’s slush fund accounts and who they paid out to.

4: Articles showing connections between these leftist organizations and news organizations indicating the plausibility of them feeding funds to support their causes. This may be something of a open secrets style search if the leftist organizations are considered a “non-profit”.

Definitely could use some help with this anons. I’m willing to dig and compile the information but could use help finding source data.

Thank you!

>>6520419

Well know this is curious and ties in with my post above:

https://nypost.com/2019/05/16/salon-media-sold-for-5-million-to-tech-entrepreneurs/

SALON.COM is being acquired by the part owners of SNOPES.COM

Salon Media Group is being acquired for $5 million by a little-known pair of tech entrepreneurs who are meanwhile caught in a legal battle over their ownership stakes in fact-checking site Snopes.com, The Post has learned.

>And this:

Richmond said publicly traded Salon, which hasn’t filed any financial information in more than a year, is required to complete an audit and then get approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission before he and his partner take the struggling company private — “hopefully within 60 days.”

>>6520752

meaning? need moar context. is this a win or loss?

>>6520859

nice

now we just need POTUS to print out a poster sized image and hold a press conference with dems at the table

>>6520863

seconded

NOTABLE

DiFi the traitor

>>6520888

thanks baker

>them digits

Combine DiFi talking to Zarif, John Kerry talking to Iranian officials, and the former assistant secretary who told China to hold off until new administration, seems the cabal is putting a lot of effort into reassuring their foreign allies and doing everything they can to obstruct our current administration from conducting foreign policy in the manner outlined by our laws and constitution.

>>6520907

interesting, can you pair them up with timestamps and context?

Would be a good side by side

>>6520942

I would assume a very small portion of that would be attributed to brand name, and their website. Being that salon.com is synonymous with a garbage tabloid - not valued highly.

Since they are facing complete bankruptcy, my guess would be that the valuation is based on a property, and all equipment located within. Maybe some company vehicles. It doesn’t take much to add up to five million. What is hilarious is that this is considered an internationally recognized “news” organization that many other news orgs cite. And still they are only worth 5 million. Just goes to show how far a relatively minuscule amount of funding can be used to propagate stories if you have others to help amplify their “voice”.