Good ol' Wisconsin: RNC legislators trying to shut-down an investigative journalism program

[thewayne]

Gee, I can't imagine why they might want to do that! It's sad because it's pretty much zero dollars in the budget. Apparently the republicans on the legislative joint finance committee have been shifting their story around to try and justify their actions.

The author includes a fantastic quote from a staunch conservative who served for over 30 years starting in 1907: “Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense — the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.”

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/journalism-and-democracy-in-wisconsin/

Comments

[silveradept]

Of course, they'd be pushing for this while the government there is doing all sorts of restrictions of rights, and the federal government doing a large amount of spying on people in the United States. It's like they don't want journalists or something...