Posted on 02/04/2025 7:40:38 AM PST by bitt
The leaders of NPR and PBS are set to be grilled on Capitol Hill as the newly formed Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), demands answers on why taxpayer dollars continue to fund these far-left media outlets.
Letters sent to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS President Paula Kerger on Monday morning accused the outlets of producing blatantly biased content while still receiving millions in federal funding.
The move signals a direct challenge to what conservatives have long criticized as taxpayer-funded propaganda for the left.
In her letter to Maher, Rep. Greene highlighted NPR’s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020, citing the outlet’s now-infamous statement:
“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
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DEFUND.
The best part of all this winning is that it was set up by the dems deploying their Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the system with so much disaster that they could implement anything they wanted in the name if “fixing” it with fascism, but before they could someone who really WILL fix it with freedom and prosperity instead of fascism won the election.
MTG is one of our heavy hitters. She will make the hearings worth watching. Is Rand Paul also going to be asking questions? Hope so.
IIRC, there was an article not long ago that said out of 89 senior editors at one of those 2 places, there was not a single Republican.
I would hate to be the public face of NPR or PBS. They are going to have to get on national TV, under oath, and respond to some intelligent questioners.
And all they know to say is, “We have never ran a biased story ever.”
The Left seems to be on a long losing streak, and many eyes are being opened.
The real Deep State ideologues will never give up the con. But I wonder about some fairly run-of-the-mill elected Democrats at the federal, state, or local level. Will we start to see more Democrats come forth and reject that party. “I never knew it was this bad. I don’t want any part of this. I’m joining Trump.” It would be nice to see that sort of trend. And pretty depressing if even the low level people won’t give up the con.
Liberals always want to use someone else’s money to pay for their self-serving pet projects.
Listened to NPR’s coverage of the dismantling of DEI programs throughout government, the USAIA and FBI reforms and the DOGE activities. The reports and the tone of the reporters was frantic and panicked. These liberal, leftist propagandists now know they are dealing with serious people. Soon Conressional mandated Federal funding for soon end for them as well. As the left is defunded, these people have a hard time finding jobs.
Poor judgement call by the Cloward-Pivenist when they put Biden/Harris in office as the Coup-de-grace to capitalism.
Unfortunately for them it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and pushed the voting public to the point that voter turnout overwhelmed their voter fraud system and put Trump (their worst capitalist nightmare) in office with an undeniable mandate from the public.
Our “Ministry of Truth”.
It is going to be absolutely delicious to watch these two arrogant, entitled, radical Leftwing Karens getting grilled. Maher, in particular, is obnoxious.
Nina Totenberg.
It will be entertaining to watch when PBS and NPR are cut off from the federal dole. They are already running ads it seems mainly from big law firms, but will they get enough revenue from other advertisers with their dwindling audience of mainly wealthy, white, liberal women or their annual subscription drives?
I admit there was a time decades ago when public broadcasting gave us alternatives to the pop music schlock with good classical and jazz radio and broadcasts of programs like Monty Python and Dr Who. However, there is no longer any need with streaming giving us every alternative. NPR news and public affairs programming has gone to what only could be called a Marxist point of view interspersed with those pseudo intellectual programs so often satirized on SNL. Time to cut the government subsidies and let them sink or swim in the world of ideas
End the Taxpayer funding of Hate Trump speech! Yes, you can be even handed but that just isn’t thee case now.
I like a lot of NPR programming, though I gave up on their new programming years ago.
Still, I’d happily become a member and help support their programming, just as soon as they stop accepting government funding.
Any idea when the hearing will be held? Will it be covered by CSPAN or Fox or One America or Newsmax?
They are called RINO’s.
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