Brian Stelter's "Reliable Sources" newsletter for CNN carried the headline "Countdown for NPR & PBS." The Senate must vote by next Friday to rescind $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or that funding remains. Stelter reported PBS even put an advertisement for itself during its July 4 special, A Capital Fourth. We couldn't find it "during" the show.
But one of the most maddening things about PBS and NPR is that they refuse to accept any form of negative messaging about them on their own networks. When the funding topic comes up, it's all advertising. The conservative case about defunding and relentless bias is not allowed.
So there's no doubt that the word "public" in their name is a fraud. When Americans aren't allowed to criticize their supposedly "public" networks, when their viewpoints are offhandedly labeled misinformation, they cease to be networks that represent all the public. They then represent only a fraction of the public, that fraction being the pompous liberal elite who want to tell the public what to think while invalidating any and all disagreement. This is the exact opposite of what America has always represented.
This also happens on other networks, like CBS on Sunday, where John Dickerson said to PBS star Ken Burns, "make the case for PBS." They showed him testifying before the House in 1999. That's amazing, since I also testified that day, and Burns had to listen to me vent about the "PBS-DNC Complex." The hearing was balanced. PBS and NPR never are.
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