Do you listen to NPR or watch SCETV? We do, too. We like NPR’s music if not it’s leftwing slant on the news.

Time was when NPR was mostly classical music with a little leftwing news coverage.

Now it’s just the opposite.

Some readers are calling it “Pravda on the Potomac.”

We also like SCETV’s Masterpiece Theater. But the so-called News Hour and other programs are for the birds. The Big Bird.

Former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during a debate with President Obama that he would end federal dollars for public TV and radio.

“I love Big Bird (of Sesame Street),” he said. “But I’m not going keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”

Congress gives the Corporation for Public Broadcasting about $445 million a year. That is only about 0.014% of federal spending, liberals like to say. But wasteful spending is wasteful, no matter how small.

What our readers tell us they are interested in is if Congress, which controls the purse strings and a Republican majority, has the will to do anything about it. Do they have the will to challenge NPR and ETV to quit taking their lead from CNN and the Washington Post?

We have no issue with CNN or the newspaper. They are private companies protected under the 1st Amendment. CNN’s ratings continue to fall so the market may correct their behavior.

It’s not as if NPR and ETV cannot stay afloat without millions of taxpayer dollars. Hundreds of online newsletters and websites do it without a dime of tax money. They range from FoxNews.com and Breitbart.com on the right to HuffingtonPost.com and Politico.com on the left.

Cogressman Joe Wilson of Springdale said, “continuing to subsidize NPR with taxpayer funding, after the network spreads biased information and can survive on its own, does not make sense when the national debt stands at over $21 trillion.”

We’ve asked others in Congress for their opinions.

How do you feel about this?

– JerryBellune.com