“enhanced public funding for journalism.” He envisions the future of American journalism as a “mixed system,” part public, part private.”

This is (partially) how government turned my native France into a nation of sheeps. Pluralism of the media doesn’t exist there, and all public discourse is either socialist-left or socialist-right. No ideas differ from that narrow socialist path, and non-compliant journalists end up ostracized and blacklisted. The government of France has a financial hand in all printed and TV media, through direct and indirect subsidies of parent companies. The internet is the only media over which French government has no power – a troubling thorn to state control that government is desperately attempting to control. Of course, the french don’t have freedom of speech, and can be charged with a crime FOR THEIR SPEECH… as happened recently to journalist Eric Zemmour. Unfortunately, that govt power over the people is not enough for the rapacious appetite of a tyranical government. Thank God French blogs and journalists can set up shop in an American based internet company (such as wordpress), which is beyond the reach of french govt.

Watch out for governmental hand in the media – lest our great American nation becomes (as France) the ghost of its past. Quiet desperation is not the American way – God Bless America.