UPDATED:
NPR Editor in Chief just jumped ship.
The $9 billion rescissions package which includes the defunding of NPR and PBS for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
It was signed into law 24 July.
President Donald Trump is among the Republicans who have long sought to terminate federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, a pair of outfits whose unmistakable ideological bias and imbalanced coverage at taxpayers’ expense have rankled conservatives. The call to defund the liberal networks goes back at least as far as the Nixon administration.
On May 1, Trump ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cut off the liberal propaganda networks’ direct and indirect funding, noting both that “Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage” and that “no media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies.”
The president’s order was, however, vulnerable to legal challenges — especially since Congress holds the power of the purse.
To ensure the success and permanence of this defunding effort, the White House proposed that Congress cancel funding to public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. In addition to the proposed $1.1 billion in cuts to the CPB, the White House also requested that lawmakers cancel over $8 billion to various leftist projects disguised as foreign aid programs.
This is what $1.1 billion in public funding for NPR and PBS paid for:
Following the Senate’s advancement of President Donald Trump’s recissions package Tuesday night, taxpayer funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are potentially on the chopping block.
The Senate voted 51-50 to advance the legislation, with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie. The precise extent of federal funding received by the outlets is unclear. Direct federal grants represent two percent of NPR’s total funding and 15 percent of PBS’, according to The New York Times. However, both networks receive an unknown amount of taxpayer money via payments received from member stations nationally.
Trump’s May executive order claimed that neither of the two networks “presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events” to American taxpayers. A Daily Caller review of the two outlets’ coverage appears to confirm that assessment.
NPR has produced a plethora of news content focused on LGBTQ issues. A June 2024 NPR article highlighted a documentary about the plight and rise of specifically gay comedians or comedians who focus on gay-themed material.
“‘Laughter is disarming’: A new documentary traces generations of LGBTQ comedy” excoriated “big-name comedians” for what they called “transphobic material.”
The outlet quoted Page Hurwitz, the writer and director of the documentary, who took aim at comedy legends like Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy for what she described as “homophobic” comedy.
Further news coverage appearing to border on LGBTQ advocacy included what the outlet called a “safety handbook” for drag queens.
NPR also spent editorial resources in April on an article about “Lempicka,” a musical about Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish painter from the 20th century the outlet labeled “queer.”
………Less than 10 percent of Americans identify as LGBTQ, according to a February Gallup poll.
NPR’s seemingly adopted a skewed approach to race relations in a June 2020 conversation between NPR host Michel Martin and author Jennifer Harvey posted with the title “How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race.”
Harvey excoriated America’s “racist culture” and legacy of segregation with no pushback from the host, according to the transcript.
The author said she tried to “complicate messages” regarding rules and the law when speaking to her kids. “I made sure they knew that Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. were breaking the law. They need to know sometimes that’s what’s required,” she told NPR.
She also told an anecdote about speaking to one of her children after a rally about police. “One time after a rally, my 5-year-old said, ‘Black people are not safe.’ And I said, ‘Yes, that’s true.’ And then she said, ‘But we’re white, so we are safe.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s true too,’” Harvey recalled.
………64 percent of Americans do not believe children should be allowed to see drag queen shows, according to a 2023 YouGov poll.
PBS has also featured articles with titles such as “Suffragist Gender Benders,” a piece purporting to show “images of notable gender non-conforming suffragists.”
The outlet displayed bias in its coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. PBS’ Nick Schifrin said in October 2020 that “disinformation experts I talk to tell me that pr-Russian actors have been packaging their disinformation next to apparently legitimate information, and that they fear that Russian and other actors will continue doing so in the final weeks before the election.”
Former PBS principle counsel was caught on undercover video describing his violent agenda for America, including sending the children of Trump supporters to re-education camps where they could watch PBS all day.
In another undercover video, Ron Schiller, the former fundraising director for NPR, vented his spleen over Tea Party patriots, labeling white, middle-America as “gun-toting….seriously racist, racist people” , and praised the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
I don’t want my “white, middle-America, gun-toting” tax money going to a craven, elitist shill. If you want to promote socialist agendas and ingratiate yourself to some of the worst Islamic excrement on the planet, then do it without my taxes.
Leftwing mouthpiece Bill Moyers was a PBS contributor.
National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller wanted to create a national network to ensure you get your news from the government in general and NPR in particular.
I’m sure there will be no shortage of wealthy liberals on hand to continue supporting PBS and NPR.
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