This will turn into a MAGA own goal. NPR can get enough individual funding to stay on the air. They also survey listeners, and especially donors, about programming decisions. The more their donors skew left, the more their programming will. I listen to public radio and would label it as left leaning, but not left-wing. Partisan attacks like this may be the quickest way to drive it further left.
Doesn’t exactly track with what’s happened the last few decades though. They’re funding has been cut over and over, all while conservatives have gone after them. Yet they’ve gone further and further to the right.
This will turn into a MAGA own goal. NPR can get enough individual funding to stay on the air. They also survey listeners, and especially donors, about programming decisions. The more their donors skew left, the more their programming will. I listen to public radio and would label it as left leaning, but not left-wing. Partisan attacks like this may be the quickest way to drive it further left.
Doesn’t exactly track with what’s happened the last few decades though. They’re funding has been cut over and over, all while conservatives have gone after them. Yet they’ve gone further and further to the right.