Posted on 11/24/2024 10:30:32 AM PST by TigerClaws
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh BREAKING: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announces DOGE may defund NPR.
"We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR, that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda."
Rep. MTG is leading a House subcommittee that will work with Elon Musk/Vivek Ramaswamy's Dept. of Govt. Efficiency.
DOGE can’t defund much of anything anything. If congress funds NPR then it is funded.
>>Why are they announcing every coming move?
hubris is my guess
Decades overdue. Defund PBS too.
Ahhh…we are in the part of the transition where all sorts of stuff is tossed around. And almost none of it happens.
I would caution folks not to get too worked up—either way—about any of the stuff you hear now. All spending originates in the house….not the White House.
Finding hidden enemies.
Compare to recon by fire...
Great savings — DEFUND NPR. And I would mind if Voice of America is defunded as well. VOA misrepresents the American nation and society.
That’s WOULDN’T mind. I wouldn’t mind if DOGE defunds Voice of America (VOA) as well.
National Propaganda Radio can fund themselves.
NPR needs to be defunded because it’s as partisan as the New York Times.
“Works for me. I don’t know anyone who actually listens to that government crap.”
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My Commie neighbor listens all day long with ear buds.
I, thank the stars, am just the opposite. After surviving grad school and then beginning a career in biomedicine ca 1980, I funded 1/365 of the annual budget of MN Public Radio. Year after year.
I was one of those folks they bragged about - sitting in the driveway listening on the car radio until the sequence ended, so I didn’t miss anything. I liked the coverage of literature, didn’t have to fire up the SW to listen to BBC, and the local news stories were always in depth, lacking the stuff we would now term as ‘click bait’.
As time passed, I recognized that their slant no longer aligned with mine. I am/was a classical libertarian/conservative - ex army officer/farmer/taconite miner.
Took them three years of begging letters to understand that I wasn’t going to contribute another penny.
Love your self description - classic libertarian/conservative. Me, too.
In the olden days, I listened to classical music and to literature. Then I discovered Rush Limbaugh and switched to talk radio. By the time I was hearing NPR, it was with the liberal slant already heavily there. Just as I gave up so many well-loved TV shows for their slant, I couldn’t deal with the NPR today.
The taconite mining sounded fascinating. My grandfather was a rare metals miner in Colorado, doing a lot of prospecting from Alaska down to Central America. He was in a gunfight at the bottom of the Independence silver mine in Victor CO, 1902.
Yes! Let the free market decide if NPR is necessary. I believe they have a right to spew their lefty clap-trap, I don’t believe we should pay for it.
Defunding is a good start. May the employees of that communist organization live from hand to mouth for the rest of their lives.
That will take legislation from Congress. NPR was created along with the NEA as part of Johnson’s “Great Society” plan.
It does not take legislation to defund.
Start by killing those tiny concerts.
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