State Rep. Jared Patterson’s should read up on the First Amendment and drop his little...
State Rep. Jared Patterson has filed a bill to ban Texas colleges and universities from donating to nonprofit media.SAN ANTONIO — We can’t imagine a proposed bill to ban Texas colleges and universities from supporting nonprofit media outlets will pass the Texas Legislature.
It’s an absurd attack on free speech, press freedoms, academic institutions and the availability of public information. It’s the kind of extremism and press antagonism we would expect from a fascist state.which reads: “an institution of higher education may not use funds from any source to provide financial support, including through the purchase of a membership, sponsorship, or advertising services, to a media organization.
Let’s unpack this. Nonprofit news organizations such as NPR, PBS and the Texas Tribune rely on funding to support their missions. Nonprofit journalism organizations are transparent about their corporate sponsors, disclosing them in stories or on their websites, like theSponsorship for nonprofit journalism outlets function much like traditional advertising that appears in for-profit media outlets.
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