NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical left-wing echo chambers for mostly wealthy, white, urban liberals and progressives who generally look down on and judge rural America.

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow. This is the Daily. For far too long,

federal taxpayers have been forced to fund biased news. This needs to come to an end, and it needs to come to an end now.

From the moment that President Trump and Republicans took control of Washington this year,

they set out to turn longtime threats against public media, which they see as biased against them,

into action. And that action is a piece of Republican legislation that would cut more than a billion dollars from the corporation for public broadcasting, which finances PBS and NPR.

Like many public radio stations, we're facing federal funding challenges that make listener support more important than ever.

I hope you'll let your senators know public radio means a lot to the North country and they should oppose rescission.

But as that legislation hurdles through Congress, those who work in public media are warning

that its deepest impacts may be on radio stations in rural and Republican America.

Today, my colleague, daily producer Jessica Chung

speaks to the manager of one of those stations

in a conservative town in Alaska.

It's Friday, July 11th.

Jessica, do you hear me?

Yes, Tom, I can hear you.

So I don't have a camera in the studio here.

That's fine.

Okay.

You can just kind of stare at the top of my head.

Tom Abbott is a longtime station manager at KFSK, a public radio station in a town called

Petersburg.

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