What If The Marines Got The Money They Needed, And NPR Had To Hold A Bake Sale? - Mitch Berg

Tell an NPR supporter that their network is "Government Media", and the standard response has always been "Ack-shyu-ally, NPR only gets 2% of its funding from the federal government".

• "So then you won't really miss the money", you might respond.
• "NOOOOOOOOOO! You'll be killing Teri Gross and Elmo!"

Until this past week or so, I thought "Government funding is simultaneously no big deal and a life or death essential" was the biggest conundrum NPR supporters faced.
NPR didn't help itself out much by responding to charges of editorial bias by picking Katherine Maher as CEO - a woman with impeccable credentials who proposed doubling down on everything that'd made NPR suspect in the first place:

Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be “facsists” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”...

One editor had had enough. Uri Berliner had watched NPR become an echo chamber for the far left with a virtual purging of all conservatives and Republicans from the newsroom. Berliner noted that NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.

Well, that backfired, didn't it?...