It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored media like PBS and NPR. And since the EO was such a major event, usual host Tim Graham called in to share his decades of wisdom and insights.
After decades of working toward the divesting American tax-dollars from the liberal state-media outlets of NPR and PBS, we were surprised and excited to see major progress happen literally overnight.
We reviewed the text of the executive order, which accurately noted that, “Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage.”
Adding: “No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize.”
The EO also called for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting “cease direct funding to NPR and PBS” and for other associated agencies to do the same.
We discussed the four items, including three PBS studies published by NewsBusters’ Clay Waters exposing PBS’s liberal bias, which were cited by the White House.
Finally, we also looked to the future and note that the fight is not over, seeing as an executive order could be undone by a Democratic president.
Enjoy!
