NPR has a Complaint

It seems that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is finally trying to address the way their funding of National Public Radio has amounted to a government subsidy for liberal propaganda. As one might imagine, NPR is resisting. Angrily. The New York Times covers the story here.

What the CPB wants is to install a couple of ombudsmen who can address bias charges. They also indicate they may redirect funding from news to music programs. I don't think they will follow through on the funding shift unless NPR refuses to make the very tardy reforms.

I wouldn't mind NPR news so much if it was news. Instead, I get a steady stream of Democratic, Green Party, and socialist talking points. And, of course, no NPR broadcast day would be complete without some interviewer asking: "Is that when you realized you were a lesbian?"

Sometimes they even ask the men that question.

Now, there is an argument NPR could use against these changes that has a grain of truth to it.

With the current state of Air America, the only liberal talk radio that people listen is NPR .
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AND ANOTHER THING (Monday, May 16, 11:26 AM)

Look closely at the New York Times story. You'll notice that in the same sentence they discuss "alleged liberal bias" at NPR, they describe CPB Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as a conservative. No use of the modifier "alleged" there.