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NPR CEO Complains About the First Amendment - "The Number One Challenge..."
Bongino Report ^ | 18 April 2024 | Matt Palumbo

Posted on 04/18/2024 10:23:10 AM PDT by Sam77

New video was resurfaced showing NPR’s new CEO Katherine Maher complaining about the first amendment on a panel hosted by the Atlantic Council.

According to the Daily Mail:

Maher called the First Amendment the “number one challenge” in American journalism during a panel discussion.

Maher noted the First Amendment provides a “fairly robust protection of rights,” making it “a little tricky to address some of the real challenges of where bad information comes from.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bongino.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: defundnpr; defundpbs; npr; pbs

1 posted on 04/18/2024 10:23:10 AM PDT by Sam77
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To: Sam77

Her #2 challenge is telling the Truth. “Truth often gets in the way of getting things done.”


2 posted on 04/18/2024 10:24:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Sam77

Sounds like he’s cut from the same cloth as the new NPR director.

The uniformity of thought among our scumbag “elites” is really something.


3 posted on 04/18/2024 10:26:00 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Sam77
'...a little tricky to address some of the real challenges of where bad information comes from.'

That's a weird statement. What does she mean by 'address'? The Amendment allows her to 'address' anything she likes. It sounds like she really means 'shut it down'.
4 posted on 04/18/2024 10:26:27 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Yardstick

Whoops, I posted on the wrong thread. Here’s the guy I’m talking about:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4232065/posts


5 posted on 04/18/2024 10:28:02 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Sam77

The door was opened when hate crime laws were enacted. Because it’s but a small step from there to the criminalization of “hate speech”.

And just what is hate speech? It’s any speech the left doesn’t like. And that includes deliberately spreading “false information”. Which is any information the left doesn’t like. See the pattern?


6 posted on 04/18/2024 10:30:59 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Sam77

oh darn! national political rhetoric has a problem with our dear 1st Amendment!

Imagine that!

In my lifetime, there was always the radio on the stool in ythe corner of the dining room. The tv box was upstairs in the living room. When I came home from school, I would do my homework by that radio.

That radio station saw to it, to bring all points of view, without worry of communist ideology, since anti-communist laws still existed.

Now, wouldn’t that be tefreshing, these days?


7 posted on 04/18/2024 10:48:26 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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>> “where bad information comes from.”

From your stunning, cunning tongue, Maher?


8 posted on 04/18/2024 11:18:20 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Sam77

I never thought I’d see the day when free speech was so vilified.


9 posted on 04/18/2024 11:31:59 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Sam77

She is a nightmare of globalist totalitarian,a ultra left walking delusional person, right out of 1984.
Apparently she believes she has been entrusted to redefine Truth among other things- not in my world she is🤓 and as its said im “ not required to participate in her delusions , fantasies and ideas”
what a nut! so if she really is a CIA cut out & is redefining Truth we are not on a slippery slope anymore- this is the DS talking and she is their more obvious mouthpiece. This is very scary if so


10 posted on 04/18/2024 11:34:20 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN 💎GOING GfirstETS TOUGH KEEP GOING💎 IfIT DOESNT KiI re done noL yOU I wil MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
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To: Yardstick

It’s all about control, ala 1984.

S what if there’s *bad * information out there? And so what if people believe it?

People can believe in what they want as long as they leave others alone, which the left refuses to do. They cannot stand the thought that someone out there is outside of their control.


11 posted on 04/18/2024 11:34:51 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Sam77

DEFUND NPR

NEOCON PROPAGANDA RADIO.


12 posted on 04/18/2024 11:35:23 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock them up.)
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To: Sam77

This situation may culminate in two very good things. The calls for Maher to resign are growing so maybe she will. Secondly the calls to stop federal funding of NPR are also growing. NPR has always been associated with the broadcasting of state sponsored (leftist) propaganda but now that the FedGov has so many other reliable ‘news’ outlets at their disposal, FedGov may allow the funding cutoff.


13 posted on 04/18/2024 11:41:26 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: Sam77
They are now openly enemies of freedom.

It must be they think they have already won, except for mopping up.

14 posted on 04/18/2024 1:07:46 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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