[Sparta]

"Silence every voice that doesn't toe your line and you've bought a nice new facist state for Christmas."

That's what I have a problem with.

[Jakenuts]

How would you define a facist state apart from its tendancy to eliminate any voices that disagree with its primary objectives? Defund PBS, and say goodbye to Sesame Street, Front Line, Nova because some otherwise outstanding content is simply not profitable enough to survive against Baywatch and The Bachelor. It might not be your intended outcome to eliminate the only educational and thoughtful programming on television, but it will certainly be the result. All because NPR doesn't sound like Bill O'Reilly. Thats a shame.