Newt [Gingrich] Cometh

James T. Bennett ()
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James T. Bennett: George Mason University

Chapter Chapter 7 in The History and Politics of Public Radio, 2021, pp 99-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers the most serious and sustained effort yet to defund NPR: that of Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives elected in November 1994. A central contention of the abolitionists was that NPR was “elitist,” and both scholarly studies and NPR's own data reveal that its listeners do fit a demographic profile that contrasts sharply with that of non-listeners along lines of wealth, formal education, and residence. This chapter also recounts the scandals of the second decade of the twenty-first century which have given new energy to the organization's critics.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80019-2_7

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