FIVE-O FIASCO: NY Times Editorial Board Claims Defunding NPR, PBS Is Like Defunding Police.

The newspaper even admitted that “Republicans complain, not always wrongly, that public media reflects left-leaning assumptions and biases.” “Not always wrongly?” What does that even mean in this context? Like this is rare? Instead of hourly?

Then the editorial board took a detour onto Cuckoo Avenue to describe current legislative efforts to strip NPR and PBS (finally) of their taxpayer-subsidized license to continue belching up left-wing propaganda with impunity:

 We are reminded of the excesses of the ‘defund the police’ and ‘abolish ICE’ movements on the other side of the ideological spectrum. They adopted a fatalistic view of vital government services, suggesting that their imperfections justified their elimination. They were wrong, and so are the conservatives who want to defund public media.

And now an ironic message from PBS’s Sesame Street brought to you by the number “5” and the letter “O.”

One big difference: Minorities really want the police very well-funded: “White Progressives Shocked To Learn Black And Latino Voters Don’t Share Their Radical ‘Defund The Police’ Views,” Ashe Schow wrote at the Daily Wire in 2021. In contrast, as Uri Berliner wrote in his Free Press cri de coeur last year about how NPR went off the rails:

Despite all the resources we’d devoted to building up our news audience among blacks and Hispanics, the numbers have barely budged. In 2023, according to our demographic research, 6 percent of our news audience was black, far short of the overall U.S. adult population, which is 14.4 percent black. And Hispanics were only 7 percent, compared to the overall Hispanic adult population, around 19 percent. Our news audience doesn’t come close to reflecting America. It’s overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns.

How odd. NPR honchos assured me that it was vital to the safety of small Texas towns during weather emergencies.