Jornal da Madeira – The President’s Newspaper

The Jornal da Madeira is a daily newspaper owned by the Government and maintained in the market through Government funding. It is bankrupt and owes the taxpayer over 40 million Euro, but the Government continues to pour in 4 million a year to keep it going.

The Jornal is essentially a PSD propaganda paper, which is distributed free despite having a fake cover price of 10 cents. The Jornal only publishes political opinion pieces by the President’s closest collaborators. Jardim himself writes two full pages per week and other columnists write three or four days in a row. It is common for them to publish up to four opinion pieces, all by PSD militants.