Ever since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and National Public Radio (NPR), their longstanding tagline tells the story: “This program is sponsored by…
There’s a peculiar talent NPR has perfected over the years: the ability to moralize and condescend in the same breath, all while pretending they’re simply offering insight. Their latest exercise in public character trial — disguised as cultural analysis — centers…
“Trump Cuts Funding for PBS, NPR,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on May 6, 2025.
Among the clips resurrected from my childhood by YouTube, none stirs what Portuguese speakers refer to as saudade as much as the signoff for Boston’s public television stations. It features stills of Julia Child, Kermit the Frog, Christopher Lydon, Zoom,…
Why can you almost hear REM’s “Everybody Hurts” playing when a certain group on the political spectrum talks and The Partridge Family’s “Come On Get Happy” in the background when their ideological opposites speak? Thomas Edsall writes in the New…
Wikipedia defines “truth” as “being in accord with fact or reality.” That’s why I wanted to redefine truth to be malleable and partisan when I ran Wikipedia. Now that I head NPR, I seek only to promote truth that aligns…
A few months ago, Google came under fire for images generated by its AI model, Gemini. The model was about as woke-skewed as one could have wanted. Requests for photos of the Founding Fathers resulted in pictures of black men…
