NewsBusters is taking a victory lap for the Home vote to claw again funding for PBS and NPR. However the media did not appear to need to point out it. ABC and NBC skipped, and CBS threw in a short on CBS Night Information Plus.
The New York Instances and The Washington Put up had no story in any respect within the A sections of their papers. (The Washington Instances put it on the entrance web page.)
NPR’s personal protection included media reporter David Folkenflik providing the same old balderdash. “Conservative activists” are “saying NPR and PBS have a liberal bias. The networks reject that, saying they search equity in reflecting and protecting the American expertise.”
They do not search equity. They’re nowhere near it. They’re in search of to be a daring voice for liberals. You’ll be able to deduce their objective by consuming their “information.”
PBS and NPR have continuously pleaded to Congress and the general public that defunding these networks would hit rural communities the toughest. The Washington Put up picked up on that line as reporter Philip Marley went to my neck of Wisconsin and recommended this defunding could possibly be dangerous as a result of “different radio indicators are staticky and web service might be patchy.” They’d be “poorer” with out the “impartial possibility” of NPR. That is the NPR PR.
The story was bylined Westby, Wisconsin — six miles north of my hometown of Viroqua, the place my father Jim Graham helped discovered the radio station in 1958. Its sign just isn’t “staticky” in Westby, until possibly somebody resides in a cave.
That is what big-city Democrats do, suggest that individuals in additional rural communities apparently haven’t any non-public TV and radio choices, to not point out all of the “patchy” web and streaming choices. Their downside, because the Put up story reported, is that younger People have tuned out broadcast TV and radio, suggesting PBS and NPR aren’t connecting with many younger People.
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