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Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams warned that an educated and well informed citizenry is vital to the survival of our democracy. Now, at both the state and national levels, serious efforts are being made to limit the information available to us.

Here in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has proposed in his budget that the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine be discontinued after 100 years of publication. Interestingly, this magazine costs the taxpayers nothing. Why then is it included in the budget? The Walker administration has already moved to take phrases such as global warming and climate change out of state publications in an effort to limit the information citizens receive. This is just another attempt to do the same.

At the national level, President Donald Trump wages a war on the media, going so far as to ban news organizations that criticize him and his policies from press briefings. Im sure every one of us has a few media outlets we do not like. But whether they shout at us from the left or the right, our democracy will survive them. What it cannot survive is a news media that works only to support the sitting majority -- in other words, a government controlled news media.

-- Jane Noffke, Madison

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Government shouldn't control the news media -- Jane Noffke - Madison.com