The governing authorities find it advantageous to use their control over the media, especially government-funded broadcasting, to instill altruistic/statist messages and to suppress opposing views. In the United States, the "politically correct" perspective is conspicuous on NPR and even in PBS children's programming, where the positive cartoon characters are fashionably anti-business. Proposals to restrict talk radio, which (despite its unfortunate elements of yahoo conservatism) now raises the most vigorous voices against egregious governmental encroachments, have recently gained currency. The statist orientation of the regulated media is subtle and difficult to measure, but ubiquitous. (Some of its other causal roots will be explored in Graph 4.) Much confusion about media bias arises from the attempt to characterize it by the labels of "liberal" or "conservative," which as interpreted in current-day America both refer to varieties of statism (pp. 5.3:18-20). In television, altruistic, collectivistic, and statist attitudes extend far beyond the news program. Dramas and sit-coms continually drive home the messages that private corporations and businessmen are evil, that pride and the pursuit of profit are sins, that virtue consists in sacrificing one's interests, that law officers (portrayed as heroes) may justifiably cut all corners, coercing and extorting confessions from suspects in order to uphold the authority of the state. These premises are rendered more insidious by the fictional settings, where they are to be assimilated without conscious evaluation by viewers who do not know what product they are being "sold."