The CEO of NPR Made the Best Case for Defunding It
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
This was not an attack on the free press.
The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?
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The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
Republicans often call for cutting off the funds but have never actually done the deed. Here's why this time might—might—be different.
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We've seen this saga so many times before.
"I am not in the newsroom," the embattled NPR chieftain said over and over again.
The long-time public radio editor's resignation proves he was right all along.
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NPR is no Xinhua, but Elon Musk is correct that it doesn't need government subsidies.
Based upon Totenberg's new book, a prominent legal ethicist thinks the conflict was a real one.
The Stolen Year acknowledges the public schools' COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible.
James T. Bennett's libertarian critique argues that noncommercial radio can be detached from the state—and that it's better that way.
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
It is one thing to peacefully march against injustice, and quite another to burn down what others built up.
Women prisoners are more likely to receive solitary confinement and other harsh punishments for minor infractions like "reckless eye-balling."
Libertarians should listen to the second season of NPR's legal podcast. But maybe get a pillow to scream into first.
Despite a settlement essentially exonerating him, Paul Nungesser is still a rapist in a media narrative.
You didn't think they were really going to defund public broadcasting and slash the EPA by 31 percent, did you?
The media landscape has shifted in a way that's made government subsidies less necessary than ever.
Spending $445 million to save-not Big Bird-but the jobs of the people who work in the industry.
It props up local stations that have become an obstacle to online distribution.
Clever broadcasters have found a loophole. Now how about letting some more folks in?
"Hot or cold, cooling or freezing, global egalitarian measures are required."
Group called Syrian Electronic Army altered site, took over Twitter accounts
Some prominent Republicans say they want to defund National Public Radio. We've heard that line before.
An all-star gallery of Republican politicians say they want to defund National Public Radio. We've heard that line before.
In a battle between two Goliaths, The New York Times somehow spots a David.
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