I was reading today’s Virginian-Pilot editorial claiming that, despite hundreds of tv and radio options on cable, satellite and internet, the world still needs public broadcasting.
It got me thinking…if the Virginian-Pilot thinks government needs to be in the tv and radio business, then it MUST think government needs to start its own newspaper!
Their main argument for PBS is that it offers something the private sector folks don’t offer (silly, but when dealing with liberals, you have to humor them or you never get through a whole column).
“The governor would have a much better point if public broadcasting stations aired the kind of content found on any of those hundreds of other options.” (V-Pilot)
It would help the lefties at the Pilot to watch a few of those hundreds of other options. Or, they could read my column in the Daily Press (the one that doesn’t restrict itself to liberal bloggers writing columns).
“If I can scan past the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, the History Channel, Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, Bravo, the Travel Channel, Arts & Entertainment, American Movie Classics, Food Network, and Home and Garden Television, I might trip over the public broadcasting station.
“Public affairs programming? C-SPAN shows live coverage of the House and Senate, and there are enough 24-hour news networks to whet any activist’s appetite.” (from my great column)
Certainly, if the Pilot isn’t happy with the programming on all those channels to the point that they insist taxpayer dollars be spent on offering another choice, the Pilot should be absolutely begging for government to offer competition to the one newspaper we get to choose from in South Hampton Roads.
So, what do ya think, Pilot? Ready to support taxpayer funding of another newspaper in town?
Or will you insist that your standards be applied to everyone else except yourselves.
