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?”
When Welch replied that the two organizations “largely do” stand on their own, Cornish countered:
“If it’s just 1% of funding, why do they, like, why not take that cut and figure out something else? At a certain point, don’t you…
