Go Rogue, NPR

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National Review:

Go Rogue, NPR
NPR should urge Congress to end its subsidy.

What do they put in the water cooler at NPR? First, they fire Juan Williams in October for comments he made on Fox News Channel — and Vivian Schiller, the CEO of public radio, smilingly suggests he needs to have his head examined.

This week, a sting video shows NPR Foundation president Ron Schiller (no relation) saying that Tea Party activists were “seriously racist” and telling two purported Muslim program underwriters that there aren’t enough “non-Zionist” news organizations.

Vivian Schiller and Ron Schiller both have resigned. But with a new, large Republican majority in the House of Representatives, NPR leaders could hardly have done a better job of persuading Congress to zero out public-radio funding.
NPR’s response to defunding threats has been incoherent. Its spokesmen point out that NPR itself receives relatively little public money. But then they say defunding would be disastrous.

Let me offer what is intended as a helpful suggestion to NPR: Don’t fight defunding. Instead, work with Congress to get NPR and CPB off the public payroll.