Joe Flint

who is very confident in his ability to get what he wants through executive order, through muscling his way through situations. And so he issued in May, early May, an executive order saying that all funding for public media should stop.

who is very confident in his ability to get what he wants through executive order, through muscling his way through situations. And so he issued in May, early May, an executive order saying that all funding for public media should stop.

I think there's certainly a perception that over the last 20 years, NPR has gotten more liberal. Former NPR employee Yuri Berliner, of course, wrote a piece for the Free Press many months ago outlining, in his view, just how liberal NPR has become over the last decade.

I think there's certainly a perception that over the last 20 years, NPR has gotten more liberal. Former NPR employee Yuri Berliner, of course, wrote a piece for the Free Press many months ago outlining, in his view, just how liberal NPR has become over the last decade.

I think there's certainly a perception that over the last 20 years, NPR has gotten more liberal. Former NPR employee Yuri Berliner, of course, wrote a piece for the Free Press many months ago outlining, in his view, just how liberal NPR has become over the last decade.

You know, the NPR audience tends to be an urban audience in big cities that are usually democratically run and that a lot of their content is geared towards those folks. There's nothing wrong with that. I think for the administration, their argument is, well, no, but why should we have to fund it?

You know, the NPR audience tends to be an urban audience in big cities that are usually democratically run and that a lot of their content is geared towards those folks. There's nothing wrong with that. I think for the administration, their argument is, well, no, but why should we have to fund it?

You know, the NPR audience tends to be an urban audience in big cities that are usually democratically run and that a lot of their content is geared towards those folks. There's nothing wrong with that. I think for the administration, their argument is, well, no, but why should we have to fund it?

Certainly, there's always been an argument to be made that given the debt, given all the things that we need to cut and look at where we spend our money and what we need to invest in and what we don't, that public media maybe isn't the priority it was when the Public Broadcasting Act was created in 1967. And in the grand scheme of things, it's a relatively small amount of money.

Certainly, there's always been an argument to be made that given the debt, given all the things that we need to cut and look at where we spend our money and what we need to invest in and what we don't, that public media maybe isn't the priority it was when the Public Broadcasting Act was created in 1967. And in the grand scheme of things, it's a relatively small amount of money.

Certainly, there's always been an argument to be made that given the debt, given all the things that we need to cut and look at where we spend our money and what we need to invest in and what we don't, that public media maybe isn't the priority it was when the Public Broadcasting Act was created in 1967. And in the grand scheme of things, it's a relatively small amount of money.

But nonetheless, it's still $535 million a year. It's not a drop in the bucket. So, I mean, you know, is there a rationale that it should be at least discussed? Yeah.

But nonetheless, it's still $535 million a year. It's not a drop in the bucket. So, I mean, you know, is there a rationale that it should be at least discussed? Yeah.

But nonetheless, it's still $535 million a year. It's not a drop in the bucket. So, I mean, you know, is there a rationale that it should be at least discussed? Yeah.

I think it is safe to say that this administration is targeting media outlets whose coverage it doesn't like. So we've seen it go after ABC and CBS. We've seen Trump be very critical of MSNBC and its parent, Comcast Corporation. And in going after NPR and PBS, he has the added leverage of CNN. trying to use the power of an executive order to end government funding for public broadcasting.

I think it is safe to say that this administration is targeting media outlets whose coverage it doesn't like. So we've seen it go after ABC and CBS. We've seen Trump be very critical of MSNBC and its parent, Comcast Corporation. And in going after NPR and PBS, he has the added leverage of CNN. trying to use the power of an executive order to end government funding for public broadcasting.

I think it is safe to say that this administration is targeting media outlets whose coverage it doesn't like. So we've seen it go after ABC and CBS. We've seen Trump be very critical of MSNBC and its parent, Comcast Corporation. And in going after NPR and PBS, he has the added leverage of CNN. trying to use the power of an executive order to end government funding for public broadcasting.

So obviously with public media, that he has the power to strangle their money and force them to basically get their funding from somewhere else.

So obviously with public media, that he has the power to strangle their money and force them to basically get their funding from somewhere else.

So obviously with public media, that he has the power to strangle their money and force them to basically get their funding from somewhere else.