By Chris Powell
Government in Connecticut now may have more publicists than there are independent journalists keeping watch over it. Indeed, it’s starting to seem as if government in Connecticut has a more or less official news media organization on top of all those publicists.
For the Hartford Business Journal reported last week that Connecticut Public, the left-wing nonprofit organization that operates radio and television networks in the state and is affiliated with the left-leaning Public Broadcasting System, is getting a grant of $3.1 million from state government.
The grant is to pay for extensive renovation and expansion of the organization’s building in Hartford, including a community meeting space for as many as 125 people, a 200-seat theater, a kitchen, and 20,000 feet of office space for renting — that is, a government-financed income stream.
Connecticut Public already has gotten other state grants as well as money from the tax-funded national Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Connecticut Public has an annual budget of $22 million and a hundred or so employees. With its federal broadcast licenses and meeting space in the state’s capital city, it has the broadest reach of any news organization in Connecticut even as it competes with every news organization that gets no financial support from government.
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