The Diane Rehm Show from NPR-Interesting

So, the "unbiased" NPR talking heads tell us (with their own words!) that those against the liberal NPR/PBS are republicans/conservatives and those who support the "unbiased" NPR/PBS are democrat/progressives.

The great unwashed can detect political bias, left or right,  but those getting public money and lecturing to us can't see even a tiny bit of bias.

Defund those liars and fools!

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: "Well, you can easily see that the people who want to cut the funding are Republicans. The people who have always wanted to maintain it are Democrats. You can draw your own conclusion from that."

GLADSTONE

11:51:50

...we have completely lost our raison d'etre, if that's the case. And we will continue reporting as we've always reported. We really have no choice. That's our brief. NPR has to continue reporting the way it's always reported. Let's face it. It's been on the chopping block, public broadcasting, since the '70s, since it first started doing the Watergate hearings. This is a political issue. It's not a financial issue. It will always be a touchy issue in Congress and there will be an opportunity every time there is Republican majority to cut it. On Friday, Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn introduced legislation to cut it, to follow the Republican house and so it goes. I can't change what we do. I mean, there's no reason to exist if my existence is threatened by the political environment.

REHM

11:52:42

And, Paul Farhi, do you agree with Brooke Gladstone that this is more political than financial?

FARHI

11:52:53

Well, you can easily see that the people who want to cut the funding are Republicans. The people who have always wanted to maintain it are Democrats. You can draw your own conclusion from that. Listen, it's also a symbolic cultural issue here. There's a feeling that NPR, PBS are elitists. They appeal to an elite audience. That's not really true, but that's always the way this has been cast, going back to the mid '90s with Newt Gingrich and zeroing out public broadcasting. So political and cultural, it's a wedge issue, it's one of those issues in which you can define us and them. And Conservatives have used it very effectively for a very long time.