Wednesday night sounded like “Protect My Public Media” night on NPR and PBS. The News Hour tooted its own horn as some kind of nonpartisan bargain for taxpayers. NPR’s All Things Considered put on their CEO Katherine Maher for what was basically a seven-minute pledge drive for federal funding.
Notice PBS and NPR have never managed to display fairness and balance when it comes to their own subsidies. Conservative critics are never taken seriously. Maher managed to say something as ridiculous as her claim in her congressional testimony on March 26 that she’s never found political bias on NPR. Now she says there’s no hatred for anyone on the calm airwaves of public broadcasting:
MARY LOUISE KELLY, anchor: Just to put the question to you quite bluntly, to quote the words of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman who was running the subcommittee…
