A few days ago we noted that among Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine’s budget cuts for his executive office was a reduction in newspaper subscriptions.  We wondered which papers he would cut, jokingly guessing that one would be the Washington Post.

Which makes the Washington Post’s Marc Fisher’s blog posting about the budget cuts quite fascinating:

If you had any money, you have a lot less now. If you didn’t–and here’s the gratingly unfair part–you’ll probably get less going forward anyway. I’ve been scouring my expenses and generally making everyone in my household miserable about spending any money at all, so I was especially curious to take a close look at how Mr. Tim Kaine has gone about slashing $279 million from the commonwealth of Virginia’s budget.

But this part of Fisher’s article is worthy of specific attention:

The state is slicing 5 percent, or $318,000, off its grants to public radio and TV stations. Which means that millions are still flowing to those stations–why? What possible justification is there for government support for public TV in an era when commercial cable channels do a better job of producing most of the kinds of programming seen on public TV, and when public TV has so dumbed down its offerings that any claim it once had on tax dollars has long since vanished?

A tough assertion by Fisher and an interesting place to say it.  When media attacks media, it does get quite knotty.