[Opinion] NPR Alum Audie Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR and PBS Forego Fed Funding

NPR Alum Audie Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR and PBS Forego Fed Funding

As an NPR alum, a former All Things Considered co-host, you might well have expected Audie Cornish to forcefully defend continued federal funding for NPR/PBS. So it came as a surprise—bordering on outright shock—to hear Cornish on today's CNN This Morning, which she hosts, make the case for letting federal funding lapse. Cornish's unanticipated comments came during a conversation with Democrat Peter Welch, the junior senator from Vermont, in the…

NPR and PBS are begging for mercy. They don’t deserve it

NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, Sesame Street got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online. Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be... The post NPR and PBS are begging for mercy. They don’t deserve it appeared first on Daily Truth Report • DailyTr…