FIVE-O FIASCO: NY Times Editorial Board Claims Defunding NPR, PBS Is Like Defunding Police

NewsBusters ^ | 7/16/2025 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

The New York Times leadership actually attempted to sell readers on the dimwitted notion that stripping tax dollars from leftist public media is just as nutty as defunding police departments. This is the same newspaper that largely rationalized nixing police funding across a number of stories over the past few years.

The Times editorial board went to bat for lefty outlets NPR and PBS, which are on the verge of possibly getting $1.1 billion cut from their mothership Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The newspaper had the utter audacity to argue in a June 16 editorial that continuing literal government-funded propaganda is a founding ideal:

“When the private sector doesn’t provide an important service, the government often steps in. That is why the framers established the U.S. Postal Service; they believed no one else would deliver the mail to the entire country.”

Yes, according to The Times’s logic, getting a tax-funded “service” of crackpot left-wing codswallop from NPR about people hijacking the dinosaur emoji from transgenders and how The Communist Manifesto supposedly offers “refuge, inspiration, and argument” is just as important as getting your mail.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
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[xzins]

No place in the constitution does it allow for the government funding their own news agency. Period.

[Lurker]

“ They were wrong, and so are the conservatives who want to defund public media.”

There’s no Constitutional authorization for such spending.

End it.

L

[catnipman]

” NY Times Editorial Board Claims Defunding NPR, PBS Is Like Defunding Police”

well, in that case, NYT should be happy about that, right?

[KamperKen]

When they say defunding the police they mean defunding the KGB.

[Seruzawa]

Ha ha ha! You expected logical consistency from RATs. A classical blunder.

[Seruzawa]

Yes. Because it gets no Federal funding and the rules that entails. The $ isn’t worth the trouble.

[The Great RJ]

No need for public radio, I listen to what I want when I want on streaming radio both at home and in my car. For a few bucks a month I get my music commercial free.

[grumpygresh]

Thought it was a Bee article.

[drypowder]

Per the headline, it would be like and kind if all of US police enforcement were loyal democrats.

[jimfree]

That might be the stupidest suggestion this month.

[MortMan]

In-con-thevious! (/Princess Bride)

[blitz128]

Okay and they were for defunding the price so cool

[Salman]

Unlike old fashioned liars who try to keep their stories straight, it's whatever seems to score a point right now.

[Vaduz]

NYT are a branch of NPR and PBS cover up act in motion.

[larrytown]

I wish the NYT could be defunded, along with the Washington Post, etc.

Well, it's difficult to remember and appreciate on a daily basis, but they have been - to an extreme degree.

When newspapers were king, and ad sales were like rivers of cash - we were lost in a sea of political propaganda and gaslighting.

At one time the leftist media was like a steamroller and conservatism was a possum on the road.

Now, conservatism looks at the left through a large magnifying glass and is agitated - like a kid waiting for the sun to break through the clouds.

[silent majority rising]

Well said, Larrytown.

[fwdude]

The Dummycrats are becoming parodies of themselves. And not in a good, Babylon Bee way.