Mark Tapscott: Evasive FTC wants it both ways on 'reinventing journalism'

Those seeking more evidence that the American people are smarter than the progressive elites think they are need look no further than Scott Rasmussen’s first survey of public opinion on the Federal Trade Commission’s “reinventing journalism” project.

Centerpiece of the agency’s recently released “discussion draft” is a proposal for a new 3 percent federal tax on monthly cell phone bills to create a $3.5 billion fund to be doled out by Washington bureaucrats to favored old media outlets like the New York Times. Fully 84 percent of those surveyed by Rasmussen opposed this idea.