Posted on 04/12/2023 9:42:20 AM PDT by cotton1706
As Townhall reported last week, National Public Radio was labeled as "state-affiliated media" by Twitter, a classification that was later changed to "government-funded media." We noted that NPR, in addition to corporate and individual donors, emphasizes the importance of its taxpayer-derived revenue via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, meaning Twitter's label is accurate.
Well, this week, NPR took action that suggests again it is little more than a partisan war room for Democrats that is uninterested in communicating news and accurate information to Americans.
In a story posted Wednesday morning, NPR announced that it "will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform."
So, NPR doesn't think it's supposedly necessary work is worth sharing on Twitter anymore? The framing sounds like NPR is looking for some sort of gold star from its liberal fan base as "the first major news organization" to go silent on Twitter. Is this supposed to be a punishment?
According to the organization's post, "NPR's chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility and its ability to produce journalism without 'a shadow of negativity.'" Credibility, you say? As a reminder, here's what NPR said about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell:
"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."
Hunter's laptop was later confirmed by The Washington Post and New York Times, yet NPR did not offer a mea culpa for lying to its audience that the debacle was anything but a waste of time or a distraction.
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I listen to it every day, but not by choice. My 86-year-old housemate gets all her news from NPR and CBS.
So, do I care that he took this step with NPR? Nope!! I hope he tweaks all of them and expose them as frauds.
Maybe NPR should take Bud Light as sponsor.
My leftist professor ripped it good (but still gave me a good grade).
Funny thing is, I was a part time on air employee of my local public radio station.
Yikes ... my condolences. That can't be easy trying to live a sane life with NPR & CBS droning on in the background.
DEFUND NPR.
My father used to listen to NPR.
When I asked him why, he said, “The better to know my enemies.”
Made sense to me. :-)
Call the WAAAAmbulance.
Good riddance. Now do CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC…
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Next step: make them leave radio. Defund NPR and PBS.
They don’t want to operate in a forum where critics can pick apart their lies.
Is NPR spokesman for the Climate Industry?
Don’t go away mad, NPR. Just go away.
PBS is just as bad. The same treatments of the same handful of issues with democrats and deviates as the heroes over and over. Sometimes I amuse myself by surfing there and seeing how many minutes it takes for one of them to appear.
I wish we could defund their "news" part but keep some of the stuff like Endeavour, a UK show about a a police detective who loves opera.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
NPR literally says Federal funding is *essential* on their website right now at https://npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances
What have you got against the truth @NPR?
8:06 PM · Apr 12, 2023
LOL
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