Reagan set NPR’s and PBS’ budget at zero - he was overridden by Senate Rs who liked going to dinner with the DC fancy set. The idea for PBS/NPR came out of a time when there were three broadcast networks and no cable; there are now hundreds of channels and why us taxpayers should be forced to pay for these overpaid leftist loons who dish out hate and lies at our expense is beyond me. Let Soros pay for them.
“The idea for PBS/NPR came out of a time when there were three broadcast networks and no cable; there are now hundreds of channels”
My problem with NPR being a taxpayer funded “news” outfit is that it has always failed to be respectful of all citizens and instead had an obvious poltical bias and an ambition to show it. Political neutrality needed to be hard coded into its legal formation.