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…
With so much transpiring regarding federal cutbacks and their impact on decades old programs of support, the fervent hope is that the leadership of the United States and all that it stands for in freedom, liberty, and democracy will not…
A civil war has broken out at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Trump-appointed senior advisor Kari Lake’s DOGE-powered investigations uncovered enough waste, fraud, and abuse to declare the agency unsalvageable and move to depopulate the entities it oversees,…
Conjugating ‘F’ Is Not Comedy In my car, I now automatically tune my XM radio to Fox News. I used to try the comedy channels, but they are not funny anymore. The contemporary era’s idea of comedy is who can…
Last week, Uri Berliner reported inconvenient facts. Now he no longer works at NPR. Such is the fate of truth-tellers employed by propaganda outfits. After a quarter-century as a reporter and editor with the government-funded radio operation, Berliner resigned on…
