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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Another reason to defund the CBC
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:45:34 -0500
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On 1/4/2025 9:40 PM, Ed Stasiak wrote:
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>> moviePig
>>> Ed Stasiak
>>>
>>> I've read that for American PBS/NPR, it comes out to something like $0.05
>>> per person per year yet IMO, they should still be privatized, as they're blatantly
>>> biased towards the Left/Democrats.
>>
>> Seems baked-in that PBS/NPR is, by charter, biased toward the arts
>> ...and therefore toward the Left/Democrats, relatively speaking.
> 
> Relentlessly shitting on Reps and Trump is "arts"?  People should not be forced
> to financially subsidize the propaganda that's being thrown at them.

Iirc, MacNeill/Lehrer used to be of unquestioned integrity in TV news. 
I don't know about today.  (I've never relied on NPR for news.)

MediaBiasFactCheck rates NPR as "slight to moderate liberal bias", which 
might be about as even-handed as is humanly possible.