Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio is under fire. Former NPR senior editor Uri Berliner’s recent Free Press article about the far-left ideological capture of the government radio network’s newsroom and revelations about the radical progressivism of its new CEO has triggered new calls to defund NPR.

Yes, NPR is biased, but Congress should defund it for a more basic reason: Taxpayers should not have to pay for a government radio network, even if it were the most neutral outlet on the market. Running a radio network is simply not the government’s job.