Now that House Speaker Jim Black has formed the House Select Committee on the Lottery, the issue is on the media radar screen. On Monday, WUNC-FM turned to John Hood for perspective. He noted that lottery advertising would send a terrible message to kids: your government endorses gambling and wants you to participate. In Charlotte Tuesday, WBT-AM’s Jason Lewis used JLF data to refute statements by lottery supporters and called the project a “snake oil education lottery.”
