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NPR and PBS are begging for mercy. They don’t deserve it

By Mike Gonzalez
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NPR and PBS are begging for mercy. They don’t deserve it

NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, Sesame Street got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online.

Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be no advance warning systems for weather emergencies in hard-to-reach places and that local news coverage will dry up.

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