Something very exciting happened last week, so I wanted to talk about it today instead of on the weekend. Trump signed an executive order to cut funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two far-left organizations. In this post, we’ll take a look at some reasons why NPR and PBS needed to be defunded. Are they really as far left as conservatives say?
First, let’s see a news article from Daily Signal:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for “biased” news outlets NPR and PBS.
[…]Trump ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board of directors and all executive departments and agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS.
Brianna Lyman had a really good article at The Federalist with more reasons why NPR and PBS are just too far to the left to receive funding from taxpayers – especially since taxpayers just voted for Republicans in the 2024 elections.
Here is the full list:
- NPR Refused To Cover Hunter Biden’s Laptop
- 100% Of NPR’s ‘Editorial Positions’ Are Held By Registered Democrats
- NPR Spread Tear Gas Hoax
- NPR Editor Promoted Defense Of Looting
- NPR Pushed Skin Color Emoji Conundrums
- PBS Promoted Reparations
- PBS Claimed Trump Lied About America’s Greatness
- PBS Accused GOP Of Pushing ‘White Supremacy’
- PBS Ran Anti-Republican Hit Piece
- NPR Claimed No Evidence For Biden Family Corruption
- NPR Buried Biden’s Declining Mental Acuity
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NPR Accused GOP Of ‘Voter Suppression’ While Ignoring Democrat Schemes
Looking over that list, it just looks like NPR and PBS are propaganda outlets for the Democrat party. I don’t know what else to think about such obviously biased (and often flat-out false) news reporting.
Let’s look at a few. Here’s #1:
Perhaps the most egregious example of why NPR should be defunded — and should have been five years ago — is their refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the lead up to the 2020 election.
“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel said in a statement back in October 2020. A newsletter published by NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride claimed “there are many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation.”
As we all know know, the laptop was genuine. Even left-wing sources agree. The FBI had laptop since December 2019. They confirmed its authenticity in November 2019 by matching its device number to Hunter Biden’s iCloud ID. The Justice Department, in 2024, used laptop data as “self-authenticating” evidence in court, dismissing manipulation claims.
But NPR didn’t think it was a true story. Or maybe they didn’t want their political allies – the Democrat party – to look bad, before an election.
But are they really just Democrat party operatives? Look at #2:
NPR editor Uri Berliner previously reported that voting records showed “87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.”
NPR’s Katherine Maher admitted it was a “concern” during a March Congressional hearing that all 87 positions are held by registered Democrats.
The evidence shows a strong connection to the Democrat party, so why are they getting taxpayer money right after the majority of the country voted Republican?
When it comes to monitoring media bias, the best source is the Media Research Center. And #12 talks about them:
According to NewsBusters’ Clay Waters, “PBS treated the RNC to 72% negative and 28% positive commentary” while the “DNC received far friendlier reception: 12% negative, 88% positive.”
So, if you look at the evidence, there’s no reasons for taxpayer dollars to go to organizations that are clearly biased towards the Democrat party. Next, we should remove all grants for universities, which have similar numbers of Democrats. They can operate, but why do they need taxpayer funding? Let them sink or swim in the free market by pleasing customers, like the rest of us have to.
