NPR and PBS’s impending reckoning with DOGE

Public broadcasting’s lobbyists and their television and radio clients huddled in a Washington hotel this week to chart an uncertain future. And who could blame them if they assumed the roar they heard outside came from a chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk, stalking the hotel a la Jack Nicholson in The Shining?

The noise, however, was a bus rented by the Media Research Center — a rolling billboard with “DEFUND PBS & NPR” splashed on the side. It circled Capitol Hill this week, reminding its denizens that this is the year to end what is an injustice on many levels: taxpayer funding of these outlets.