While conservatives at NewsBusters and elsewhere celebrate a major win as the House passed a rescission package that would claw back $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the liberal media didn’t greet that as a big deal at all.

The New York Times and The Washington Post had no story at all in the A sections of their papers. The Wall Street Journal offered a front-page blurb and a cursory seven-paragraph article on page A-3.

ABC and NBC didn’t get to it, while CBS gave it a brief mention on CBS Evening News Plus, underlining the “underserved” and rural folks. It's about 20 seconds, with pro-PBS protest signs on video: 

JOHN DICKERSON: Local NPR and PBS affiliates are one step closer to losing major funding, as House Republicans narrowly approved President Trump's proposal to take back nearly $9.5 billion in previously allocated federal funding. Stations in rural and underserved areas are particularly vulnerable.

If you merely looked at the PBS News Hour website, it looks like they skipped their own story. But it’s buried inside a piece by congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins headlined “What lawmakers said about Sen. Padilla being forcibly removed from DHS news conference.”

Desjardins relayed ”I am told that one who switched his vote, Don Bacon, switched his vote because he was guaranteed by House leadership that this PBS money would be restored in the fall. There are many who are skeptical that will actually happen.”

On NPR’s All Things Considered, congressional reporter Deirdre Walsh announced they were "mainstream" media: “In Trump's second term, there's really been a broad effort as part of his sort of culture wars to label mainstream media organizations. Public media are uniquely vulnerable in this environment.”

On the 6 pm top-of-the-hour newscast, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik uncorked this Truth vs. Falsehood passage: 

Conservative activists have been pushing for such a move for decades, saying NPR and PBS have a liberal bias. The networks reject that, saying they seek fairness in reflecting and covering the American experience.