In a rare moment of journalism during CNN’s Inside Politics, on Thursday, chief media analyst Brian Stelter admitted that opponents of taxpayer dollars being funneled to NPR and PBS “do have a point” with some of their arguments. He even cited comments from MRC President David Bozell celebrating the Senate passing the rescission package striping the funding. Although, Stelter could have done some fact checking for the claims host Dana Bash and he were making.
Stelter did admit that critics “do have a point” about the politics of NPR and PBS, and cited part of Bozell’s criticisms in an X post:
Well, like so much of our political discourse, it became nationalized and polarized. Like you said, conservative activists have been agitating for this outcome for 50 years. They’ve always wanted this money to be stripped away. But there was this support for localization of media that is now gone to the wayside because of arguments about national bias.
Look at David Bozell today. He’s the head of the Media Research Center, which has advocated for this cut to happen for decades, he says: “PBS and NPR were chartered to provide objective journalism ... Instead, we got drag shows for kids, gushing coverage of Democrats and silence or smears for conservatives.”
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