Mr. Paul Gigot
Editor of the Editorial Page
The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
Dear Mr. Gigot:
We are disappointed to learn that the Journal is benefiting from almost $5 million from the federally-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting to do a show for public television. Your editorial page, which promotes free enterprise and an end to taxpayer subsidies for private corporations, used to be an advocate of de-funding public television and radio. Your parent company, Dow Jones, is so rich that it just paid $519 million for CBS MarketWatch. You should have financed your own show. We strongly suggest that you return to the principled conservatism that has guided you in the past. The money you take and the viewers you get, courtesy of the CPB, are not worth it.