Why are taxpayer funds wasted on NPR's liberal propaganda?

 Howard Kurtz:

It sounds like a parody of an NPR story.

It reads like a hit piece on a conservative commentator.

It seems blithely unaware that liberal websites use the same tactics to generate traffic that is presented as somehow nefarious.

It’s an embarrassment—but a revealing one.

The target is Ben Shapiro, a highly successful entrepreneur of the right. He’s an author, podcaster and—most annoying to National Public Radio—runs an insanely popular site, the Daily Wire. And, as NPR says, he "rules Facebook," with Daily Wire stories drawing more likes, shares and comments than any other news outlet.

And that must be a bad thing.

Why? His rapidly expanding empire is "one that experts worry may be furthering polarization in the United States."

That’s the tell. The media culture is indeed fiercely polarized, but NPR—which itself leans left—is unable to see that liberal outlets are just as responsible for this deepening divide. The radio network simply can’t conceive that MSNBC or CNN or HuffPost or the op-ed pages of the New York Times or Washington Post are part of this problem. What they do is perfectly reasonable—it’s Ben Shapiro and his ilk who are playing with dynamite.

I’m not a big NPR-basher. Some good journalists work there, and yes, it receives a federal subsidy. But the place seemed to me to move sharply left during the Trump years, and this piece is just tone-deaf.
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The Daily Wire is popular because it presents interesting material that thousands of people want to see, unlike NPR, it does it without a government subsidy.  NPR is an example of government waste used to subsidize the evils of liberalism.  Why does liberalism even need subsidies when its adherents control so much of the media. 

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