NPR claims tax dollars provide a mere 1% of its budget despite other analyses that say it might be as much as 25%.
You’ll soon be able to judge which number is closer to the truth based on the volume of the squeals emanating from Congress. The louder the squeals, the higher the percentage.
TheHill.com has the news that has NPR quivering with fear:
House Republicans announced Wednesday they plan to force a floor vote on defunding NPR in response to the firing of analyst Juan Williams last month.
House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) said that cutting funds to the publicly subsidized news organization was the winner of the conference’s weekly “YouCut” contest, in which the public votes online on spending items they want eliminated.
“When NPR executives made the decision to unfairly terminate Juan Williams and to then disparage him afterwards, the bias of their organization was exposed,” the two Republicans said in a statement. “Make no mistake, it is not the role of government to tell news organizations how to operate. What is avoidable, however, is providing taxpayer funds to news organizations that promote a partisan point of view. Eliminating taxpayer funding for NPR is precisely the kind of commonsense cut that we have to begin making if we want to fundamentally alter the way business is conducted in Washington.”
Oh, wait. There’s another sound. If we’re not mistaken, this one is Juan Williams laughing his ass off.
Source: TheHill.com
This post was last modified on November 10, 2021
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Why stop there? Let's get rid of them!
"Defund them for firing Juan Williams" why not defund them for being a bunch of left wing partisan douchebags?
There had to be a catalyst so it may as well be for an hypocritical move that they can actually regret.
NPR - No Public Resources
Why "defund" them. It just gives leftists another thing to whine about.
Sell the whole thing, the stations, the frequencies, any tangible property, get as much as you can and then bid them farewell as they head on over to free market land.
I'm not against that, but who buys them? My guess would be Soros, & on the cheap. It would be cheap because it's all in place. Unlike AirAmerica, which tried to build from the ground floor, NPR is truely national with stations you can actually pick up. Soros could(& I think would) pick them up & really push NPR in a very hard left direction. Even further then now, it would turn into a radio hybrid version of MediaMatters/MoveOn/CenterForAmericanProgress/HuffPost in 1 stop with many of the same retreads leftists who have failed in the past with yet another national platform to fail on. The likes of Bill Press, Mike Malloy, Special Ed, Randi Rhodes, Mike Papintonio, RFKjr, & maybe even Janeane Garofolo, would end up behind the mic if this NPR was bought out by Soros. If we in MN could get rid of Al Franken in the Senate, he could go back to middays 12-3EST where Special Ed has been keeping his seat warm. That would be fun to write about now would'nt it?
The need for so called "public" broadcasting has long since disappeared. When it was conceived back in the 60's most towns might have had three television stations and a couple of radio stations. Now with cable, satellite and the internet there's no shortage of media choices. Get the feds out of the media business.
Exactly right. You can more or less get what you want, wherever you are. So most public broadcasting is really not needed. There are a few things that could stand alone in the free market, like Prarie Home Companion, & Car Talk, but much of what is on NPR would go away without NPR. Fresh Air? Please...