We have growing numbers of unemployed journalsits.
We have zillions of dollars being spent by the federal government, a recipe for mismanagement.
How about we employ some of these out of work journalists to evaluate and monitor the prorams to improve their quality?
Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, hired a young man named Charlie Peters to be his head of evaluation. Peters then hired journalists to give honest assessments of the Peace Corps prorams — getting Shriver the bad news before they could become public, so the problems could be fixed. (Peters later went on to found The Washington Monthly, where I was once an editor).