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You Vote: Should taxpayers bail out the news media?

Some Democrats want to use coronavirus bailout money to help news organizations. You weigh in.

Published: April 12, 2020 7:56pm

Updated: April 13, 2020 9:49am

A group of Democratic senators last week proposed using the next round of coronavirus stimulus money to help struggling local news outlets.

"Local news is in a state of crisis that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic," the senators wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and the Senate Appropriations Committee. 

Here is your chance to weigh in on whether tax dollars should be used to bail out news organizations.

Do you think tax dollars should be used to bail out news media organizations, as some Democrats have proposed?

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