MSNBC’s Ali Velshi gave an ode to public broadcasting on his Sunday show, where he tried to claim that the existence of public media is correlated with democratic health. In order to make such a claim, Velshi had to ignore one major detail from the study he cited.
Velshi, who is also an NPR contributor, gushed, “During the most important stories of the last half century, PBS and NPR were there. PBS broadcast the Watergate Committee’s hearings in full and brought us some of the most acclaimed documentaries of our time from Ken Burns. NPR’s voice has brought us moment-to-moment updates from the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Gulf War.”
One of the strangest things about President Trump’s executive order forbidding tax dollars from going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is that it has caused PBS and NPR’s competitors to sing…
