President Trump has repeated his call to defund PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and NPR (National Public Radio).
Under the First Amendment, PBS and NPR certainly have the right to free expression, but must the American taxpayers be forced to fund them? From a Christian and conservative perspective, they are heavily biased broadcasters.
When the issue came up two months ago, Congress held a hearing with Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR. Ohio Republican Representative James Jordan asked if NPR was biased, and she responded: “I have never seen any political bias.”
But Jordan countered: “In the DC area, editorial positions at NPR have 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans.” He gave an example where one of those 87 Democrat editors said of the Hunter Biden laptop story: “We don’t want to waste our readers and listeners’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Defenders of PBS and NPR, such as MSNBC, claim that “Trump’s attempt to defund NPR and PBS is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.”
In an op-ed for The Hill, Jonathan Turley writes of “The Cost of Arrogance: NPR’s undoing is a cautionary tale for the media.”
The Media Research Center (MRC) — no ...
