NPR Alum Audie Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR and PBS Forego Fed Funding

As an NPR alum, a former All Things Considered co-host, you might well have expected Audie Cornish to forcefully defend continued federal funding for NPR/PBS. So it came as a surprise—bordering on outright shock—to hear Cornish on today's CNN This Morning, which she hosts, make the case for letting federal funding lapse. Cornish's unanticipated comments came during a conversation with Democrat Peter Welch, the junior senator from Vermont, in the wake of yesterday's hearing before the House DOGE subcommittee on NPR/PBS funding. Cornish wasted no time in putting it to Welch: "Why shouldn't NPR and PBS stand up on their...