OK, this is a little old, but it was such a pithy editorial I wanted to spread it around.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/shields.pbs/index.html"...The Wall Street Journal editorial page has been a dependable and formidable champion for weaning public broadcasting from its federal dependency.
"Ironically, the conservative program that, according to the inspector general, then-Chairman Tomlinson improperly bullied onto the PBS schedule and pushed to fund so generously was "The Journal Editorial Report," a current-events program featuring members of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
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"The Wall Street Journal editors program was not a brand new TV show. It had appeared, until it was cancelled in January 2003, on the cable business channel CNBC, which Dow Jones, the publisher of the Journal, owns jointly with NBC.
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"Thus, a show that was the indirect offspring of Dow Jones, a publishing and financial juggernaut, is given a multimillion-dollar transfusion of taxpayer money and placed on the PBS Friday night schedule. Do you see any inconsistencies or contradictions in this saga of free-enterprise true-believers turning their backs on the genius of the marketplace and seeking and accepting a federal subsidy? It's enough to make you wonder if conservatives really do believe in the free market."