The End of Freedom: The Corporation for National Public Radio and for the Public Broadcast Service was created to allow tax payers to finance independent journalism to stand outside of government influence and judge the behavior of our ellected and appointed officials. Today, with more and more citizens turning to these entities in order to get something resembling the news, the demagogues in Congress have pushed to scrutinize them for bias.

Now that ABC, CBS, and NBC have all abandoned their responsibilities for reporting the news in favor of chasing whatever dollars they can scavange in the next three months, we voters have little choice for hearing views other than the government's own propaganda than to turn to NPR and PBS. The demagogues know this, so they are turning their ire on these last bastions of the news.

NPR and PBS have both been accused of being too "left leaning." Something is desperately needed to correct the ship of state. It has pitched so far to the right that freedom and truth are near drowning. The next thing they'll be telling us is that those Brown Shirts marching down our streets in jack boots are just Peace Corps members.