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QUESTION: federal subsidies to media giants

Submitted by Anonymooose on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 10:39am
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Is there a list of federal subsidies to media giants/corporations?

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Answer posted by: mfitzgibbons

I haven't found an answer, but work by Robert W. McChesney might be a starting point. He actually talks more about government subsidies of public broadcasting, but in an article on opendemocracy.org, he refers to money going to corporations: http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-globalmediaownership/article_56.jsp.

Answer posted by: jenna

I concur that this question is tricky to answer. If you can be more specific, we'll take another stab at it.
#1Submitted by canuck on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 8:19pm.

The answer to this question

The answer to this question is unfortunately not so straightforward, in part because different people have different interpretations of what constitutes a subsidy. However, if one had a list of the specific media corporations that were of interest (e.g., the "big 6"), and a more detailed definition of what types of government subsidies are of interest, the answers should mostly be retrievable using the advanced search feature at usaspending.gov.

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