Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd heaped scorn on conservatives while defending the indefensible –taxpayer-funded PBS and National Public Radio – as “fair and balanced” in Wednesday’s paper, in a long column under the long title “PBS and NPR cater to all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene might believe.”
It’s easy for Hollywood journalists to look down their nose at red-state Republicans and dismiss all the evidence of left-wing tilt they brought to the CEOs of NPR and PBS.
Every so often across my 21 years as a TV critic at this paper, I have been moved to defend public broadcasting against regular right-wing attempts to defund it. The difference now — well, one difference — is we are living in a time without guardrails, when the ethos at the top seems to be Do What You Want, Lie Outrageously and Trust That You’ll Get…
