CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed NPR CEO Katherine Maher to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a grieving session on the latter being defunded. According to Maher, the fate of democracy depends on NPR, and only people who seek to divide and pit Americans against each other could possibly support defunding it.
Colbert put the ball on the tee for Maher by repeating the idea that public broadcasting is of vital importance for local news, “And while it's possible now to, like, use streaming wherever you are and basically get another radio station, one of the things, as I understand it, is that with the decline of local newspapers and local news, these NPR stations are critical sources for people to know about their own community.”
Maher then painted a dystopian scene where 20 percent of Americans would be without traffic reports if not for her company:
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