Earlier, we noted former CNN White House screamer Jim Acosta's appearance on Tuesday at a panel at the Center for American Progress -- where Democrat officials go to work between Democrat administrations -- with the provocative title "Democracy on the Line: Standing Up to the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Free Speech."
But it's still worth isolating Acosta's remarks on how there should be a big cash infusion into PBS and NPR, to make them "too big to fail." The Left sees them as wonderful gemstones of Democrat messaging, as opposed to those dictator-coddlers and misinformers at Fox News and so on.
Look at the way Trump has gone after PBS and NPR. In no way, in the United States of America, should public broadcasting be subject to the whims of somebody who just wants to be a dictator in this country. Public broadcasting should be separate and secure from those kinds of rantings and ravings.
Trump's White House put out a long list of NPR and PBS bias, and Acosta dismisses all the evidence as dictatorial rantings. Sounding like an anti-corporate Bernie Bro, Acosta thinks America should be more like England or Canada, where the state-supported media dominates:
And one of the things we should see in this country is sort of a departure from corporations running these big news organizations. And I think, a real investment made in public broadcasting. I’d love to see PBS and NPR sort of be too big to fail in this country, sort of like we see in the BBC, or like what we see in Canadian Broadcasting. I think that, If you could see Democrats, progressives, the center, maybe center-right make those sort of investments down the road, you could, I think, protect the way people receive information in the country.
Speaking like a liberal who's never been to Flyover Country, he suggests the hayseeds and bumpkins don't have any real news except for PBS and NPR, and they're falling for the analysis of the "far right":
Because right now, folks are just, you live in the heartland. You live in certain parts of the country where your NPR station might be under attack. Your PBS station’s getting underfunded. Or your broadcast stations are being threatened by the White House. Where in the hell do they get information in this country right now? I mean, this whole thing needs to be rebuilt, in my estimation, and it has to be done quickly.
A lot of folks are just being left to the sort of Joe Rogans and, you know, Fox News and the other folks on the far right. What they control right now, in terms of their media presence, we forget the old days where people would describe the liberal media and so on. In many ways it is a media that is in large part under the influence of the Right in this country because of the way Trump has his thumb on these corporations and the way public broadcasting has been sort of taken apart.
It's fascinating that when Democrats censor conservative speech, it's for "democracy," and when they want to double and triple the taxpayer money for "public" broadcasting (that often smears conservatives without rebuttal," its the flowering of quality information and "free speech."
