Over the last year, the politicization of public media in the U.S. has reached new heights. Amid acrimony from conservatives on Capitol Hill and inside the Beltway that both PBS and NPR have yielded their respective newsrooms to liberally biased directors, resulting in stilted reporting, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formally killed as Republicans ended federal funding of the organization that supports noncommercial secular media in the U.S.
Now, the President of the Center for American Rights — a right-wing lobbying group intent on getting the FCC to probe NBC, ABC and CBS for “news distortion” — is suggesting the Commission should reclaim valued spectrum from any public radio or TV station should they fail to meet their respective operational budgets.
