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Please provide evidence that the government exerts any kind of editorial influence (implicit or explicit) over NPR.
by angoragoats 4y ago
Please provide evidence that the government exerts any kind of editorial influence (implicit or explicit) over NPR.
- infamouscow 4y agoThe Public Broadcasting Act created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The Act doesn't give the executive branch direct control over the funding of public broadcasting. However, the CPB Board of Directors consists of 9 members, each member serving a 6 year term. The CPB board members are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. If you're going to say there's no influence here, you also concede the president has no influence on the make up of the Supreme Court. It's the exact same process.
- angoragoats 4y agoI would of course concede that the president has influence over the makeup of the CBP Board of Directors. That does not necessarily have anything to do with whether the board members are influencing editorial decisions. So you've failed at answering my request by conflating "influence" over the makeup of the board with editorial influence. In fact, the only references I can find to the CPB attempting to influence editorial decisions at NPR were a series of incidents that happened during a Republican administration, and the actions were found to be in violation of the law, and one of the board members resigned as a result.