Fun, Fun, Fun, 'til Their Daddy Takes Their T-Bird Away

"NPR gives a masterclass on how not to do damage control" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/zUTkJPdLwH

— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2024

There are lots of choice phrases in that opinion piece:

"when you depend upon an act of Congress to help keep the lights on ... NPR, whose response to Berliner is a lot like its reporting: one-sided, tone-deaf, ill-advised and insanely self-important ... the breathy staccato ubiquitous in its on-air programming"

And the author winds up with this bottom-line proposition: 

"[NPR] is free to believe that it’s a balanced and even-handed news organization. But it is not entitled to taxpayer support. Is it really too much to ask that NPR indulge in its delusions on its own dime? It’s a fair proposition." 

Fair indeed.

BTW, that taxpayer support runs to $525 million in FY24 from the federal government alone. Every other media entity in the country manages to keep its lights on without putting its hand in the taxpayer's pocket. How much longer must we pay for breathy staccato tone-deaf self-importance?