Peter Beinart, of the Daily Beast, offers up a great justification for keeping NPR public. Read the entire piece here.
It gives some interesting specifics about the role that NPR plays in journalism, as compared with today's standards.
While the whole article is great, the ending is a must read, so I will give it to you here:
After claiming that the right's attacking of NPR would be justified if they were all isolationists who were against free-trade (his earlier arguments centered around NPR being a last true bastion of international news), he says this:
"Folks like Palin want America to grow more and more economically integrated with other countries and they want America to keep invading them. That being the case, shouldn’t we keep funding NPR, so someone can tell Americans where those countries actually are?"
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