The seventy employees of the Jornal da Madeira, the Government-owned newspaper, have not been paid last month’s salary. The Jornal is the voice of government propaganda.
Despite being a publicly funded newspaper, its pages are filled with PSD and Government news while the most outspoken opposition parties are censored from its pages. The National Commission of Elections has found its coverage to be biased and, since 2007, has sent its findings to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for criminal prosecution.
Jardim’s Government says it is awaiting money to be sent from Lisbon in order to pay the arrears. The Jornal receives four million Euro per year of public funding, plus a further 1 million in illegal institutional publicity (for which it is being investigated).
A study by Accenture in 2005 reached the conclusion that the Jornal cost 585 Euros per reader.
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