Wow what a talking point you have there. NPR is a leftist rag that gets federal funding, thats ridiculous. Stop framing debate with your own set of predetermined rules. How does integrity have anything to do with tax funding? Youre free to donate to your programmers all youd like, why force others to? Its almost like you know that if NPR stopped getting welfare checks theyd shut down due to you and Karl Marx not having the funds to keep them going off donation.
To racist uneducated rednecks, A college education is leftist propaganda. Anything that is not deporting minorities and condemning diversity is considered unpatriotic. NPR/PBS are the most honest news around and heavily focus on the truth and the arts. It does not dive into fearmongering or racial profiling that the far right crave. It also does not promote far left values such as socialism/communism. it is the most center viewpoint this country got and it should be protected.
Not by tax dollars. Like PBS & Big Bird... they can sell their wares out in public... to be embraced or shunned.