AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Subpoenaed Singham-linked outlet runs to Democracy Now! — which paid millions to a Singham-founded company
Days after the House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News over its ties to a Shanghai-based tech entrepreneur's funding network, the outlet mounted a public defense on Democracy Now!, a program whose own IRS filings show $2.5 million in payments to a company that same entrepreneur founded. BreakThrough News presenter Rania Khalek went on […] The post Subpoenaed Singham-linked outlet runs to Democracy Now! — which paid millions to a Singham-founded company appeared first on American Almanac .
Days after the House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News over its ties to a Shanghai-based tech entrepreneur's funding network, the outlet mounted a public defense on Democracy Now!, a program whose own IRS filings show $2.5 million in payments to a company that same entrepreneur founded. BreakThrough News presenter Rania Khalek went on Democracy Now! to frame the congressional subpoena as a politically motivated assault on journalism, comparing the probe to McCarthyism and warning host Amy Goodman that her program could be next. What Khalek did not address during the interview were the committee's actual stated concerns: the financing arrangements and organizational structure behind roughly $39 million that…Open