Congress is finally defunding public broadcasting, and it’s about time.
Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for the toxic, biased propaganda that federally funded media have been poisoning America with for the last 60 years.
The argument for government-run media has always been dubious at best; it’s what dictators use to control and discipline the public.
The news media is supposed to scrutinize and reveal what our leaders are doing. How does that work when the government — of any sort — is picking up the bill?
Imagine if the government paid for newspapers. Would you trust the news it reported?
Ken Burns, who made the Civil War and baseball documentaries that aired on PBS, says that without public broadcasting, farmers won’t hear the weather forecast. Their crops will be ruined.
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