Today's Chris Christie Lesson in Government

Christie sells off the state's public TV and radio stations:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie compared the government funding of public broadcasting to the old Soviet Union before announcing a deal that will sell the state's public broadcasting network to New York’s WNET, MyFoxPhilly.com reported.

New York Public Radio will acquire four radio stations under the agreement.

At a press conference in Trenton, Christie said the government ought to stay out of broadcasting, and the relationship in New Jersey should have ended decades ago.

“In my view, that should have ended with the Soviet Union," he said. "It's ending here in New Jersey a little later than the fall of the wall in Berlin. But we're getting there.”

In an age where there are so many sources of information there's really no reason for the government to be in the broadcasting business. There's not shortage of information available to news consumers out there.