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Many agencies run PSAs that provide helpful public service with safety messages or programs that are available to help people with needs. But you don't pay for PSAs. They have always been part of the public interest. That certainly applies to over-the-air media, but it ought to apply equally to ALL media channels.

It sounds like we need comprehensive new laws that define the responsibility of media companies of all types to provide public service as a condition of their right to operate in the public space. And that ought to have very strong guidelines of how PSAs can be presented to be a legitimate public service and not gaslighting.

And not a single taxpayer dollar for agencies or individuals to promote themselves. After all, there are plenty of free opportunities for agencies to make their case on the Press the Meat programs.

I am surprised by, and appreciate, Kennedy's point of view on this. But he didn't take it nearly far enough.