OP-ED: Turning the dial: How DEI captured the CBC and lost the public

Patrick Keeney writes, "To work at the CBC is to embrace cognitive dissonance and abandon journalistic integrity."

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By Patrick Keeney

On July 17, 2025, the U.S. Senate approved a $1.1 billion rescission of federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service, following a similar vote in the House the month before.

The issue wasn’t with public broadcasting in principle, but with NPR and PBS in practice. It was a re…