Should NPR Give Up Public Funding?

After NPR’s CEO resigned due to a secret-video sting, Congressional Republicans are likely to target the news and radio network’s public funding. Should NPR not give them the satisfaction and just pull itself off of government money? The network receives only 2 percent of its direct funding from the government. (Member stations receive more like 16 percent, however, from public sources.) "It's not worth it,” writes Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan. “As long as NPR takes a single dollar from the U.S. government, it will be forced to appease and cater to Congressional Republicans, who know that NPR is a convenient target in the culture war.”