Taxpayer funding of media ‘a very bad idea’: C-SPAN founder

The founder of America’s leading public affairs media network has issued a warning about government funding of news outlets: Don’t do it.

Brian Lamb, who led the startup of C-SPAN 46 years ago this month, said in a “Founders Day” special just released that he never considered asking for federal funding of the all-Congress cable network and warned that politicians would exert control in return for the support.