For today, links to five reports: from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, and C-SPAN, and to a conversation via YouTube from Times Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (SYRIA, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE.  MEDIA 3-26-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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4 takeaways from PBS and NPR’s testimony on Capitol Hill. Reported by Scott Neuman and David Folkenflik | NPR  The chief executives of NPR and PBS,  Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger, defended public broadcasting on Wednesday before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on government efficiency,  against accusations by Republican lawmakers of political bias. Click HERE to listen and read.  Click HERE and HERE for two March 26 NPR reports, and HERE and HERE  for reports from AP and C-SPAN.

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949,000 VIEWS AGO  Who is the greatest threat to world peace? Matt Chorley of Times Radio speaks with Noam Chomsky, coauthor with Edward S. Herman of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988) and author of shelves of other books, about the wars in Ukraine and elsewhere, what happened to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Britain, and prospects for the future of humanity. Click HERE for video.

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