NPR editor quit after telling the truth about liberal bias in media. It’s time to defund them.
- NPR in recent years has gone from being something I enjoy to something that more often than not leaves me shaking my head.
Ingrid Jacques USA TODAY
2024-04Apr-17
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Here’s a solution: Defund NPR
NPR – National Public Radio – isn’t just another media outlet. It’s funded in part by taxpayers, which places it in a different position than say The New York Times, The Washington Post or even my news organization.
Private publications are free to do what they want, although I think more are waking up to the need for more viewpoint diversity. It’s simply a smart business decision to reach a broader audience.
While Berliner argues that NPR still deserves public funding, I disagree.
He writes: “As the country becomes more fractured, there’s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith.”
Yet, NPR is offering no confidence that it will embrace anything close to the viewpoint diversity that it now lacks. Its new CEO, Katherine Maher, is getting attention because of social media posts she made before she was hired, including calling former President Donald Trump a “racist sociopath” and boasting of wearing a Joe Biden campaign hat in public.
That doesn’t bode well.
If NPR wants to double down on its woke mission, fine. But it shouldn’t do it on my dime – or that of other taxpayers.
NPR claims that “federal funding is essential to public radio’s service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.”
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#DefundNPR
I don’t want to pay for much of what the Gooferment does. So let’s start here!
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