Trump is right to remove PBS to remove PBS

I regularly hear the “morning edition” of NPR. But the open liberal bias of the program often increases my blood pressure. President Donald Trump has the right to reduce his tax allowance grants.

I woke up this morning as it is woken up: Listen to the “Morning Edition” on NPR.

The calming voices, hip -musical interludes and international stories make me feel like I'm on a kind of short vacation before I have my first cup of coffee.

Most of the time, however, it also increases my blood pressure. The obvious bias and the superior attitude that liberals convey is intrinsic in almost every segment.

And I ask myself: Why do I pay for it all over the world?

President Donald Trump asked himself the same, and he does the case that NPR – National Public Radio – and his television siblings PBS from taxpay financing, which they have received since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), should be cut off from the Congress in 1967 under a democratic administration.

On May 1st, Trump issued an executive regulation that tries to end subsidies for both companies.

“The state financing of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary, but also for the appearance of journalistic independence,” says the order. “At least the Americans have the right to expect their tax money, if they finance public broadcasting funds at all, only finance fair, accurate, impartial and non -partisan news reports.”

All of this is true and it has passed to end the state -subsidized public media.

Katherine Maher, CEO from NPR

In addition to the executive order, the White House calls for the congress, according to the New York Times, for the CPB, the grants distributed to NPR, PBS and local member stations to collect a financing of two years – 1.1 billion US dollars.

Public media organizations are obviously not happy and paint Trump's actions as a “threat” for their work – and even as an affront to the first change. Other media groups are too.

But is it?

Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR, recently told CBS News' “Face the Nation” that she saw the executive regulation when the Trump administration disrupted the “editorial independence of NPR”.

“Part of the separation that the first change offers is to keep the government away,” said Maher. “In fact, the law that was written when the public broadcasting law was signed in the law was very explicitly about the interference of a government member.”

Our first change application offers the strongest protection of freedom of speech against state interference in the world in the world. However, there is no constitutional guarantee for state -subsidized media.

Maher unintentionally made a case against tax money when she said that the government was supposed to stand out from the decisions of NPR.

Just like Harvard, Columbia and other university institutions learn, federal financing always comes with strings, and the safest way to free yourself from this interference is to forego money.

The same applies to npr.

Reporting “directly all over the line”? Give me a break.

Let us return to the problem of bias in public media. It is omnipresent and obvious for anyone who is really careful.

But Maher can't see it.

“Our people report directly all over the line,” Maher told CBS News. “And I think you are not only doing this, but also with a mission that only very few other broadcasting organizations have, which is a prerequisite for the entire public.”

For conservatives like me it was quite a giggle.

The sad thing is that she can actually believe it. NPR is like most old media organizations in which the vast majority of the news editorial offices consist of left -wing ideologues who all think the same.

A year ago, the long -time NPR editor Uri Berliner took care of the public by talking about the liberal prejudices and the lack of ideological diversity that had overtaken the workplace he had loved. He resigned after the turmoil.

As Mike Gonzalez, a senior scholarship holder of the Heritage Foundation, said at a hearing on the congress in March for NPR -Financing: “The Democrats vote unanimously for more and more money for public media and in exchange in public media in public media strongly in their favor.”

Trump is one of many Republican presidents who wanted to end tax-supported media.

I hope he is the first to be successful.

Ingrid Jacques is a columnist at USA today. Contact you at ijacques@usatoday.com or at X: @Ingrid_jacques

I regularly hear the “morning edition” of NPR. But the open liberal bias of the program often increases my blood pressure. President Donald Trump has the right to reduce his tax allowance grants.

Katherine Maher, CEO from NPR

Reporting “directly all over the line”? Give me a break.

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