THEY KEEP MAKING ME FEEL GOOD ABOUT LEAVING THEM: USA Today Uses Bloomberg-Paid Anti-Gun Activist to Interview David Chipman. “For USA TODAY, this is nothing new. It’s all part of an incestuous partnership the newspaper has with the Trace – the propaganda arm of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun empire. . . . Reporters at the Trace are activists, not journalists. They advocate for more gun control. That’s their job.”

Plus: “The story was written by USA TODAY reporter Nick Penzenstadler and Brian Freskos, a staff writer for the Trace who’s based in Chicago. According to his bio, Freskos’ reporting at the Trace ‘has primarily focused on gun trafficking and community-based violence prevention.’ To be clear, even though he shares a byline on the story with an actual newspaper reporter, Freskos is paid by Bloomberg as an activist, a position he’s held since 2016, when he graduated from Columbia University.”