I have taken a lot of heat through the years when I have criticized "state run news" in places such as King
@GovNedLamont The Unaccountable's
#Connecticut, saying that no such thing exists.
Now we see an op-ed by
@jahimes , a member of the U.S. Congress saying, not only does such a thing exist, he's damned proud it does, and he and others such as the
@CTDems and the
@CTSenateDems will continue to use their tax dollars to fund their viewpoint.
Get it, kids? The First Amendment is a wonderful thing, except when someone expresses a viewpoint contrary to your own. In that case, you try to censor them and use their tax money for your reinforcement.
I grew up as kid in the NY area reading the greats like Bob Lipsyte, Dick Young, Pete Hamill and Murray Kempton. On TV we watched Walter Cronkite and Howard Cosell. All had different viewpoints. But each of their endeavors stood on the genuineness of their message and on pure economics. Not state-sponsored support and encouragement to spew propaganda and not report on critical items impacting the general public if such report would be contrary to the interests of your glad-handing benefactor.
People, lean on your legislators to stop the support of state-run media. If a thing cannot travel on its own economic merits, it should not travel at all. And God Bless the good souls like
@GeorgeColli , Bob Swick
@SwickSpeak and
@JCherrySparks who scratch and claw every single day to bring you the facts as they stand, without the taint of political influence-buying.
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