He really thought he had something, too.
A congressman smarting over legislation to defund National Public Radio tried to take out his frustration with a ban on federal dollars paying for advertising on Fox News, but the effort was rejected in a party-line committee vote.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., offered an amendment Wednesday night that would have prohibited funds from any federal agency from being used to advertise on the Fox News Channel.
“If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to strip funding from NPR because they believe — wrongly, in my view — that NPR is biased, then we should be given the same opportunity,” McGovern told the House Rules Committee…McGovern didn’t actually get around to saying how much money the military spends on Fox News advertising, purposefully so. As long as people of McGovern’s ideology continue to vilify the ROTC on campuses who receive federal funding, I see no problem with allowing them to place television advertisements. They have to recruit somehow. After the deregulation of the broadcasting industry in the 80s, station owners didn’t have to eat airtime to give free reign, literally, to PSAs. They cost.
Of course, McGovern surely can’t be so illogical to assume that government funding to pay for the production of bias and items like this:
is in any way similar to advertising for military recruitment on Fox. If McGovern wants to see more military ads on networks like MSNBC, perhaps encourage them to be friendlier to the cause and attract more of an audience that would see said ads. Advertising goes where the eyeballs are.
I have to wonder, too, if McGovern was also against President Obama using the public airwaves multiple times to push his unpopular health control law?
McGovern mentions possible presidential contenders as analysts, except purposefully omitted that Fox suspended Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum as analysts until they made a decision whether or not to run.
If McGovern is so concerned about NPR financing, perhaps he should privately raise funds for a PSA campaign to encourage progressives to fund what they want to hear themselves.
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