Why? Why does a multi-billion dollar industry need subsidies from taxpayers? The people in these industries are uber-rich. Let them pay their own costs.
Are they afraid that without subsidies, the TV networks will go off the air? That they will stop making movies? And if they did, how would that be a bad thing?!
“Why? Why does a multi-billion dollar industry need subsidies from taxpayers?”
Government propaganda ain’t going to insert itself on its own.