On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.
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Hylton then turned to politics and journalism professor Jason Johnson and wondered, “Consistently, polling shows that Americans love and appreciate and often depend on these programs. Jason, who are the Americans you're most concerned about?”
Johnson too would insist that public broadcasting is the key to preventing the country from falling back into the primitive past, “Well, people who are worried about, like, local news and weather. Like, there's a lot of different things that your local NPR station actually does and provides.”
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