NPR Alum Audie Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR and PBS Forego Fed Funding

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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As an NPR alum, a former All Things Considered co-host, you might well have expected Audie Cornish to forcefully defend continued federal funding for NPR/PBS.

So it came as a surprise—bordering on outright shock—to hear Cornish on today's CNN This Morning, which she hosts, make the case for letting federal funding lapse.

Cornish's unanticipated comments came during a conversation with Democrat Peter Welch, the junior senator from Vermont, in the wake of yesterday's hearing before the House DOGE subcommittee on NPR/PBS funding.

Cornish wasted no time in putting it to Welch: "Why shouldn't NPR and PBS stand up on their own?"

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Both NPR and PBS have for *years* been pushing the idea that they can blow off federal funding, because they are so popular. However, this is an obvious bluff, and when there is a serious debate about cutting them off, the left freaks out.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I occasionally listen to NPR for “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and used to like “Car Talk.” Everything on there is “sponsored” by some DEI loving corporation. It’s absurd to pretend they aren’t supported by commercials.