Article in The Hill by Howard Husock, 1/17/25

Headline:  “Fixing the missing ‘N’ in ‘NPR’: Public media must serve the American public at large”

“If the pledges of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are to be believed, the incoming Trump administration will make defunding public broadcasting a priority. The Department of Government Efficiency leaders have specifically targeted the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which directs federal funds to National Public Radio and public television. Their view is in line with that of conservatives generally, who have come to see public media as a progressive bastion.

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, has said, ‘NPR and PBS have among the bigger partisan gaps in believability.” Only 16 percent of Republicans, the Pew project has found, say they believe what they hear on NPR.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/5089700-defunding-public-broadcasting/