Public media is struggling under Trump. L.A.’s KCRW may have found the way forward

It was a textbook addition of insult to injury. When President Trump signed an executive order last May taking federal funds away from public broadcasters, he dubbed the document: “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.” Apparently, the financial lifeblood of public radio and TV wasn’t merely wasteful; it was wasteful because of its recipients’ malicious intent. Later that summer, Congress made the order a reality—or at least the “ending subsidization” part, if not the mal...