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2024-04-18 Home Front: Politix

Republican senator makes new push to defund NPR as whistleblower editor resigns

[NYPOST] Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants to end federal funding for National Public Radio after the resignation of a veteran editor following his suspension for publicly accused the outlet of espousing liberal bias.

“The mainstream media has become obsessed with doing the Left’s bidding and taking down strong conservatives — and NPR has led the pack,” Blackburn (R-Tenn.) told Fox News Digital in an interview published Wednesday.

“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.”

Uri Berliner announced on social media Wednesday morning that he was leaving NPR, where he had worked for 25 years covering business news.

“I don’t support calls to defund NPR,” Berliner’s resignation statement read. “I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.

Posted by Fred 2024-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 NPR CEO calls First Amendment the 'number one challenge' in America

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-18 06:58|| 2024-04-18 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 50 NPR employees demand CEO Katherine Maher, editor-in-chief publicly rebuke 'factual inaccuracies'

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-18 09:37|| 2024-04-18 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 NPR claiming to be dealing in facts?

Bwahahahahahahaaaa....

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-18 09:55|| 2024-04-18 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Skidmark, she also said truth gets in the way of getting things done.

Posted by Deacon+Blues 2024-04-18 11:37|| 2024-04-18 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I don’t think there is much federal direct funding of NPR - maybe 10%. There is probably more indirect funding washed through various foundations. Blocking funding in January would be helpful. Make the leftists pay for their own propaganda.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-04-18 11:55|| 2024-04-18 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 M. Murcek's right - I've read at least three stories on this and the 50 NPR employees don't mention a specific 'factual inaccuracy', which means there were no factual inaccuracies.

Posted by Raj 2024-04-18 12:09|| 2024-04-18 12:09|| Front Page Top

#7 I don’t think there is much federal direct funding of NPR - maybe 10%.

True. One of NPR's talking points is that they are listener funded. The way that works is the FedGov gives money to universities and such that then send it on to NPR. If you or I did that, we'd get called for money laundering. But it does make the numbers come out nice.

And let's not forget corporate sponsorship. The other day I heard an NPR commercial for MathWorks - Makers of MATLAB and Simulink software. These are high-end numerical computing packages which are probably *not* of interest to the average NPR drive-time listener who wouldn't know a spreadsheet if it bit them on the ass.

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-18 12:19|| 2024-04-18 12:19|| Front Page Top

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