Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan to rescue the news industry is a dangerous, schizophrenic mess.

The Vermont senator extols the virtues of what he calls “real” and “truly independent” journalism, lauding fearless and uncompromising reporting that works hard to expose government and corporate malfeasance. But his praise is merely a prelude to proposing what Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie rightly characterizes as an “unprecedented power grab over freedom of speech and the press.”