David Chen

In “NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters,” which appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Benjamin Mullin, Jack Healy, and David Chen unwittingly justified the defunding of those taxpayer-funded media outlets that conservatives have been advocating for decades.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, New York Times reporters overcame enormous danger and duress to perform often-heroic feats of journalism, as proven by the Pulitzer Prize winning “Portraits of Grief” series, which commemorated the lives of every single victim of the terrorist attacks. But in the months and years that followed the paper reverted to partisan and liberal…