Former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said on MSNBC that losing federal funding could be a good opportunity for the outlet to "reset" its governance structure.

David defeated Goliath. But it took President Donald Trump to crush the goliath of liberal media. 

In recent weeks, Trump has defunded the leftist public media at NPR and PBS and NPR’s top editor quit right afterward. CBS announced that late-night host Stephen Colbert is being let go, sending the left into F-bomb-laced meltdowns. Long-time Washington Post staffers are fleeing the outlet because it promises to use its opinion pages to support the scary combo of "free markets and personal liberties." Major news outlets are settling Trump lawsuits and paying up millions of dollars. And The New York Times just reported that the progressives at Media Matters are considering shutting down, as well.

And those are only the highlights. Sure, Trump is not alone. He has had lots of allies helping him. Elon Musk, in particular, has gone to war with Media Matters on a global level, causing the group to rack up "about $15 million in legal fees," according to the Times. But none of this would have happened with another Republican in the White House. No president since President Ronald Reagan has been willing to tangle with the press like Trump. 

BOZELL, GRAHAM: TRUMP SUCCESSFULLY DEFUNDS NPR AND PBS AND HE'S JUST GETTING STARTED

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