CNN's Brian Stelter sent out his "Reliable Sources" email on July 28 with the chirpy headline "Surprise: PBS and NPR are still alive and kicking." Why on Earth would that be a surprise? Depriving these liberal networks of taxpayer money wasn't a death sentence.

In last year's debate over defunding, PBS and NPR executives routinely claimed federal funding was a tiny fraction of their budget—and that cutting them off would have a horrible result. How does that make sense? Then again, PBS and NPR executives also claimed they weren't biased, which was preposterous.

NPR's "Public Editor" Kelly McBride explained: "The entire public media network, including every member station across the country as well as PBS and NPR, runs on about $3.2 billion a year. The federal grants represented about 16 percent of that total." That's not a tiny fraction.

One year after President Donald Trump signed the bill to defund........

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