Unless they can serve a broad cultural and geographic cross section of the nation, NPR and PBS don’t merit taxpayer support.
Concern about media bias — specifically politically liberal bias — has moved center stage thanks to the cri de coeur by National Public Radio’s Uri Berliner in the Free Press. The network’s business editor, who resigned in the aftermath of his speaking truth to power, wrote that “politics intruded” on a wide variety of coverage, from Covid to “Russiagate,” connecting what he regards as the network’s movement to the Left to the fact that he could identify exactly zero registered Republicans in its D.C. newsroom.
The same can be said of our CBC. Most of what they produce seems to be for CBC staff and their transgender, social justice friends.
