Posted on 04/19/2024 7:03:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
All things considered, National Public Radio represents the left wing of American journalism. Conservatives, of course, have known that for years. It took a veteran NPR editor with an ax to grind and some resurfaced tweets to drive home the point that the “Fresh Air” of public radio stinks with leftist bias.
“Too many media outlets push their slanted agenda instead of reporting the news. National Public Radio has a track record of promoting an anti-American narrative on the taxpayer dime, while suppressing dissenting viewpoints,” Good said in a statement to The Federalist. “My legislation would ensure no taxpayer dollars are used to fund the woke, leftist propaganda of National Public Radio.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is weighing a number of options to sever federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which doles out grants to NPR, Fox News reported this week.
“The mainstream media has become obsessed with doing the Left’s bidding and taking down strong conservatives — and NPR has led the pack,” Blackburn said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “It makes no sense that the American people are forced to fund a propagandist left-wing outlet that refuses to represent the voices of half the country. NPR should not receive our tax dollars.”
NPR Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner, who was with the network for 25 years resigned this week after he was suspended for a tell-all essay he wrote about the leftist hivemind of NPR.
So the question is: Why is the American taxpayer paying for this Pravda?
Some lawmakers are saying enough is enough.
U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is introducing a bill to defund NPR. The bill’s draft, exclusively provided to The Federalist,…
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I’d love for this to happen, but I doubt it will.
As Chris Plante correctly labels-—national panhandler radio.
Nothing will change.
Republicans don’t have the backbone to defund anything.
Show me! Been sayin’ for 30 years.
“U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is introducing a bill to defund NPR.”
I’m all for it, Bob, and have been for years. However, you may want to save your time and energy for when Republicans have not only the House, but also the Senate and Presidency. But just when Republicans can enact a conservative agenda by having all three is usually just when they fail to exert the effort to do so. Funny how that works.
And let’s not forget taxpayer funded PBS.
Anything is better than Public Broadcasting. Remember on Rush:
Narrator: “Next on PBS, Quilting for the 90s. If we don’t broadcast it, who would. Who’d want to”.
Viewer: “That thing better have a Dallas Cowboys logo on it”
Let the liberals subsidize this trash.
Only defund?
NPR is the enemy and should be treated as Hamas is.
To quote the Daleks, “Exterminate, exterminate”.
I’m tired of my money being flushed down the toilet.
I listen occasionally to check on the enemy’s activities. But dismissed their “news” BS years ago when they featured David Gergen as their “conservative” wag...
“I listen occasionally to check on the enemy’s activities. But dismissed their “news” BS years ago when they featured David Gergen as their “conservative” wag...”
Same for me but I quit when I heard Cokie Roberts say “old Washington hand” one too many times.
They have been threatening to do this for 50 years yet here we are again with just enough grouching to make us think they are finally going to do something. They will pass a general amnesty before they defund NPR.
3 decades past time
Traitor Johnson would not allow them to be defunded.
If George Soros can be made to fund it, he will have less money available to do other harm.
If George Soros can be made to fund it, he will have less money available to do other harm.
NPR, PBS in reality receives maybe 1% from federal gimme’s. The rest is donated by corporate or subscribers Etc.. so they’re not going to really miss the federal money but it should be pulled on principal. Along with pulling the federal dollars they should be mandated to change their name to not reflect public or national, or any other association with the federal, state, and local governments.
bump
Yep...Gergen made me reGergentate...
Don’t hold your breath...
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