Once upon a time - back in the 1970s - there were only a handful of places to get news - and one of them was National Public Radio. Today, Americans have access to thousands of diverse news stations on radio, TV and smartphones. None of them cost taxpayers a dime.
NPR is at best unnecessary and at worst so left leaning that it sounds like a daily mouthpiece for the progressives.
As you've probably heard, the CEO of NPR, Katherine Mayer, called President Trump a "Deranged, racist sociopath." Maybe she thinks that language plays to NPR's listeners.
Uri Berliner, a former NPR senior business editor who resigned last year over its increasing bias, found that in D.C. (where NPR is headquartered), there were 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. Fair and balanced.
The hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars that subsidize public TV and radio represent a wealth transfer from poorer Americans to the significantly wealthier audiences who tune into them. If NPR is of any value, surely the rich and famous niche audience who virtue signal by listening to it can afford to pay for it themselves. Or they can turn on MSNBC or CNN for their daily fake news.
