Trump’s FCC chief has simply opened an investigation of NPR and PBS which may end result within the lack of taxpayer funding for these shops. Conservatives are cheering for this. For years now, folks on the proper have identified that Nationwide Public Radio features like a media arm of the Democrat occasion.
In brief, they don’t deserve taxpayer funding.
George Washington College Regulation Professor Jonathan Turley agrees. Regardless that Turley is a liberal-leaning one that has appeared on NPR previously, he acknowledges that NPR has change into little greater than a mouthpiece for the left.
Turley writes at FOX News:
Finish NPR’s taxpayer-funded gravy practice
“That is NPR.” That tagline has lengthy been used for Nationwide Public Radio, however what it’s stays remarkably unsure. NPR stays one thing of a curiosity. It’s a state-subsidized media outlet in a rustic that rejects state media. It’s a website that routinely pitches for its sponsors whereas insisting that it doesn’t have commercials. That confusion could also be on the way in which to a ultimate decision following the election. NPR is about to have a reckoning with exactly what it’s and what it represents.
Whereas I as soon as appeared often on NPR, I grew extra important of the outlet because it grew to become overtly political in its protection and illiberal of opposing views.
Even after a revered editor, Uri Berliner, wrote a scathing account of the political bias at NPR, the outlet has doubled down on its one-sided protection and commentary. Certainly, whereas tacking aggressively to the left and brazenly supporting narratives (together with some false tales) from Democratic sources, NPR has dismissed the criticism. When many people known as on NPR to select a extra politically impartial CEO, it as a substitute selected Katherine Maher, who was beforehand criticized for her strident political opinions.
Some have lengthy questioned the federal authorities’s subsidization of a media group. NPR itself continues to keep up that “federal funding is crucial” to its work. Nevertheless, this nation has lengthy rejected state media fashions as undermining democratic values.
Don’t neglect, that is how NPR defined why they have been ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop computer story.
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— NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor) October 22, 2020
If liberals wish to maintain NPR going, allow them to do it with their very own charitable donations. The outlet doesn’t deserve funding from taxpayers.
