Gee, a state funded news outlet turns out to be the political mouthpiece of the ruling party? Who'd have thought this could happen? As it stands, though, many

Gee, a state funded news outlet turns out to be the political mouthpiece of the ruling party? Who'd have thought this could happen? As it stands, though, many news outlets in the USA demonstrate that they don't need to be state funded to be political mouthpieces. I see real journalism happening at the state and local level at this point. It seems mostly the big players that can afford to not do their jobs.