Public and community broadcasting deserves to be defended

Recently the heads of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service testified in a politically charged congressional subcommittee hearing amid the latest Republican effort to defund U.S. public media.

Chaired by Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hearing (in hyperbolic language that echoed that used in the Joseph McCarthy era) is called “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR (National Public Radio) and PBS (Public Broadcasting System) Accountable.” Greene is head of a “delivering on government efficiency” (DOGE) group within the House Oversight Committee.