Defund NPR!!!!
I thought NPR was supposed to be neutral....even about their public financing.
Yep. They should just increase their private donations from fellow liberals.
No more money for you. We’re broke. Go find a new career on blogspot.
It’ll be free speech once we’re done paying for it.
The crew at NPR can spew whatever stupidity they desire,but they need to do it on their own dime.
The government has no business funding things like NPR and Planned Parenthood and ACORN
Amazing to me that “free” speech now means getting government subsidies. I guess NPR is taking the phrase literally. Foolish me. I thought free speech meant freedom to speak without interference from government.
Of course, I can’t blame NPR for trying to keep the $ coming, because they certainly aren’t the first in line for government cheese, so to speak. We live in a land where special interests squabble for government monies like children fighting over pinata candy. Sad to say, not entering the fray is a good way to put yourself or your company at a distinct disadvantage.
What part of the Constitution allows the government to fund left wing (actually, any) communication agencies?
I guess even limp-wristed, bed-wetting liberals fight when their backs are against the wall.
NPR can badmouth this guy and lie and spread rumors all day long and it won’t matter. Only 20 people total listen to them.
They are being defunded whether they like it or not and no one is going to ride in to save them. No one cares anymore. Bye bye Nina Tottenberg.
Free speech isn’t free when the tax payers have to pay for it.
Money for nothing and your checks for free.
Got them in your sights, NPR?
Or maybe you’re ready to hit them with both barrels?
Or are you targeting them for defeat?
NPR is a perfect example of one political bias completely capturing a “public institution” - nearly always allowing the domination of one political bias in that institution and what it produces - and, then in the highest form of hypocrisy claiming it is fighting for “free speech”.
NPR should be de-funded 100% because it does not operate in “the public interest”; it operates predominately in the interests of the political Left, period.
NPR should be de-funded 100% because GOVERNMENT has no business owning, funding or operating ANY media operation. Allowing such an operation and advocating for a “free press” simply expresses an oxymoron.
The corollary to this issue is that “foreign correspondents” for any foreign government-owned media should be sent home and U.S. “work visas” for such people should be denied. If their governments want to ask U.S. officials something, we have a state department for that. If their citizens want to ask something or find “U,S” news and information, they can check out what any private media offers (from their country, the U.S. or anywhere), or sit dumbly and take the word of their governments’ media (which in some cases is all they have).
Yes, I know, that would mean the BBC would have to close down its U.S. operations. Oh, boo hoo, boo hoo!!!
The congressman is brave. I expect NPR will fight back by accusing him of being complicit in a brutal mass-murder or something, as is now wont by the media.
They can compete in the regular media market without government funds.
No more six figure “bonuses” for the overpaid “executives”. I want a Congressional investigation and complete audit of PBS. It is nothing but another liberal scam of the taxpayers. Defund and revoke their “non-profit” status.
