President Donald Trump has fought plenty of political heavyweights, but now he’s up against a foe far tougher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris: Big Bird.
The president is ordering federal agencies and the taxpayer-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop supporting National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
His May 1 executive order is titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.”
How biased are NPR and PBS?
They mostly appeal to members of one political party, according to Pew Research.
Thirty-two percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning respondents surveyed say they regularly get news from NPR, and a similar number — 31% — say the same about PBS.
Only 11% of Republicans and GOP-leaners report they get news from PBS, and the figure for NPR — 9% — is even worse.
Something about NPR is three times…
