The Corpse of NPR Pats Itself on the Back

For decades, NPR clung to the fiction that it is committed to serving “Americans across the political spectrum.” That’s how CEO Katherine Maher put it during the network’s losing battle to hold on to taxpayer funding. 

It was a tough sell coming from Maher, who has described President Donald Trump as “a deranged racist sociopath.” When the Trump administration and congressional Republicans choked off $1.1 billion in public broadcasting funds, Maher celebrated NPR’s liberation from the “Congressional funding Sword of Damocles over our heads.” 

It’s true. Thanks in part to Maher’s disastrous stewardship, the sword fell, the head was chopped off, and now the corpse is out congratulating itself: Maher said she’s seeing a spike in donations. Hooray. 

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