I don’t see why we should pay a fee to use the works commercially when, by participating in this country’s society, we already pay the fee to use it through taxes. We pay the government to make these materials for our free use.

The news station thing is stupid, and has no legs to stand on, legally speaking. It’d just be thrown out when it’s fought.

Government materials like that are public domain as far as I know, so anyone is well within their rights to use it in whatever way they see fit, even without attribution. I think that’s a cool feature of the government, not a bug.