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Yes, but that brings in a whole other boatload of conflicts.
I wasn't advocating, and am not in favor of, greater state control over media outlets. As corrupt as private media outlets are, the danger, in my view, of subjecting them to more state control is worse. That might be a good thing to do if you think that the Government in place at the moment is good. But what the last eight years should have taught is that assessing whether to vest a certain power in the state should be done by assuming that the Government to wield that power is not good.
With that assumption in place, I can't imagine how anyone would think it would be a good idea to have media outlets further under the control of the federal government.
