Defund State Media

David Boaz of the CATO Institute testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services today in favor of defunding "Public Broadcasting." Nailing it, Boaz said:

We wouldn't want the federal government to publish a national newspaper. Neither should we have a government television network and a government radio network. If anything should be kept separate from government and politics, it's the news and public affairs programming that informs Americans about government and its policies. When government brings us the news -- with all the inevitable bias and spin -- the government is putting its thumb on the scales of democracy. Journalists should not work for the government. Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize news and public-affairs programming.

Exactly. The typical complaint on the Right is that NPR and PBS lean to the left and, in a very Fox News-like-way, slant their stories accordingly. But as Boaz states:

The problem is not so much a particular bias as the existence of any bias.

Amen. Read the whole thing here.

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