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Contrarian Boston’s Scott Van Voorhis, a long-time friend and former colleague of mine, has a good post on the rather disingenuous assertions by GBH chief Susan Goldberg that NPR and PBS are bastions of objectivity devoid of biases, blah, blah, blah. As Scott notes (and I agree), the two public broadcasting institutions have long been “wonkily and even maddeningly liberal,” when it comes to some of their news programs, not Sesame Street and other entertainment programming. …

But does that mean President Trump is right to order federal funding cuts for the public TV and radio networks? Nope. It’s a classic example of the Trump 10/90 Rule at play: he may hold a view that has a 10 percent kernel of truth to it, but then he goes 90 percent overboard. … In this case, he’s partly right to be annoyed with PBS/NPR’s persistent institutional news biases, but he’s overwhelmingly wrong when it comes to a solution that, as Goldberg correctly notes, will impact so much non-news content. … And he’s a 100 percent wrong when he goes after the press exclusively because he dislikes their views.

Update — This is sad. From the Globe: “GBH is laying off 10 employees from global news and documentary channel WORLD due to federal funding cuts.”