The risk of a federal government shutdown is again looming, and the budget that has been proposed by the House calls to defund public media. It is against that backdrop that the Center for Study of Responsive Law is calling for “more stable” funding for local public radio and television stations.
The left-leaning public interest group has released a new study that says public media lacks the required funding to meet a primary goal of public broadcasting: to reach underserved audiences, particularly children and minorities.
The CSRL study says most local NPR stations lack the resources to systematically gather and report on local news, and in turn, spend too much of its limited resources covering issues that the wealthy care about.
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