No American BBC

I just don't understand Columbia University's apparent obsession with handing over portions of the press to government subsidy, giving up on the free market. I haven't given up on it. Have you?

The latest raised palm comes from Columbia President Lee Bollinger in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal, of all places. This could send BBC-hater Rupert Murdoch to his grave so he can spin there. Bollinger proposes that we start an American BBC by pooling (merging?) the resources of the Voice of America, ...