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Bollinger, the 19th president of Columbia University

It says a lot about how bad things are that in today’s Wall Street Journal Columbia University President Lee Bollinger tried to make a case for a government funding in news media.

His specious logic rests on the fact that Americans — “ironically,” in a misuse of the word — already consume state-supported news in the form of PBS and NPR here, and the BBC, Al Jazeera and China’s CCTV abroad and that all is well with that arrangement. It’s near impossible to get past the holding up of an official Chinese news source as an example of a flourishing press, but there’s more if you can control your laughter…

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