AG Watch

35 state attorneys general have “offered” anti-smoking Public Service Announcements to movie studios.

Anything anti-smoking makes for popular policy. And unless the worst libertarian suspicions are confirmed, the AGs have not encroached on the studios’ liberties.

But why are AGs injecting themseves into the movie making business at all? Even if this were a state-by-state policy question—and we rather doubt that it is—shouldn’t governors and state legislators be handling this sort of policy making? Since when do AGs handle policy making, Hollywood or elsewhere?

If the AGs need to concern themselves with Hollywood, perhaps they could figure out where all of Brendan Fraser’s good scripts went.