Public Media Gets Defensive

Public Media Gets Defensive

The people who run public media could have risen to their own image of themselves. Instead they stayed defensive. Conservatives have complained of a liberal bias from taxpayer-funded media for half a century. Richard Nixon tried to cut it soon after it was created under Lyndon Johnson. The attacks have not only been sustained, but they’ve also come from moderate conservatives, like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney. This isn’t new and isn’t just ab…