Defunding government support for liberalism

National Review:

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It is easy to look at the passage of a recissions bill totaling $9 billion of spending cuts and complain that it won’t make a dent in the debt, which is approaching $37 trillion. But such complaints should not prevent us from appreciating what it means for Republicans, under the leadership of President Trump, to finally follow through on cutting off federal funding for these broadcasters.

When LBJ signed the law that created public broadcasting, he stated that its lofty goal was to “enrich man’s spirit” by providing support for quality educational and cultural content. Such endeavors are well beyond any sensible notion of the role of the federal government, even if the CPB had lived up to these ambitions and proven free from bias. But it has not.

PBS and NPR have consistently peddled content that advanced a progressive worldview, reporting on news and history with bias, and attempting to brainwash children with woke propaganda (for instance, PBS Kids content advises parents to talk to their kids about “white privilege”).

The defenses that have been offered by PBS are absurd. PBS CEO Paula Kerger claimed that without the broadcaster, farmers would have trouble getting weather reports for their crops. Others have cited the fact that our founder William F. Buckley had a show on PBS for decades, but that ended in 1999.

The current CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, still insists that the organization is “non-partisan” despite former producer Uri Berliner’s finding that when he worked there, he looked up the voter registration of employees in the D.C. office, and Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 87 to zero. There’s also its history of double standards, such as covering the Russian collusion story relentlessly while proudly refusing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story.

But focusing on partisan bias is a bit of a diversion, because the primary bias is ideological. Maher herself should understand the distinction. Before joining NPR, she once blasted then–Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton not from the center, but for “erasing the language of non-binary people” by using the terms “boy” and “girl.”
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I don't recall ever relying on PBS or NPR for a weather report.  The local media does a decent job of reporting on the weather.  There is a reason why Fox News became more popular than traditional media, including NPR and PBS.  Fox also reported the conservative perspective along with the liberal perspective. 

See also:

Sen. John Kennedy Outwits NPR Head Once Again After She Laughably Tries to Claim It’s ‘Non-Partisan’