{"id":59017,"date":"2025-04-12T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59017"},"modified":"2025-04-12T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:32:13","slug":"npr-and-pbs-what-should-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59017","title":{"rendered":"NPR and PBS: What Should Be Done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0 R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D
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Congress has recently been holding hearings on the National Public Radio (NPR).\u00a0 The issue is whether NPR, and to a lesser extent, its related television organization Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), are politically biased and whether they should continue to receive federal taxpayer funding.\u00a0 President Trump has consistently maintained that these two media outlets are consistently against conservative principles and messages and are strongly biased towards supporting leftist ideology.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a look at some facts and see what should be done, if anything.<\/p>\n

The NPR was created in 1967 by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, and at the time was totally funded by the federal taxpayer.\u00a0 NPR consisted of a centralized program content and opinion service that was made available to local affiliated stations throughout the country.\u00a0 Their offices are in Washington, D.C. and in Culver City, CA, not exactly centers of conservative thought.\u00a0 Over the years, both NPR and PBS have reduced their dependence on federal taxpayer funding and now receive a majority of their funding from private corporations and individuals.\u00a0 Consequently, the actual burden on the taxpayer is minimal.<\/p>\n

The issue of their left-wing bias is more dramatic and, in many ways, more problematic.\u00a0 An examination of their management structure is revealing.\u00a0 Most, if not all, of the members of the board of directors of NPR\/PBS are registered Democrats and\/or donors.\u00a0 Their current CEO, Katherine Mayer who testified before a Congressional committee, holds an undergraduate degree in Middle East and Islamic Studies and served in the Hillary Clinton State Department.\u00a0 The issue of NPR bias has been raised for many years.\u00a0 In fact, the Reagan administration and Congress in 1983 proposed steps to cease taxpayer funding of NPR because of anti-conservative bias complaints against NPR.\u00a0 Interestingly, over the years there have been surveys and studies showing that NPR does indeed have a bias as alleged.\u00a0 In fact, one of their own staff members, Business Editor, Uri Berliner, documented that bias on several occasions.\u00a0 One occasion was in 2016 when Trump first ran for the presidency.\u00a0 Another incident occurred during the 2020 election when NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, which many political pundits believe was a major factor in Biden being elected.\u00a0 Even the present CEO of NPR, Katherine Mayer, admitted during recent testimony that hiding the Hunter laptop story was an act of bias on the part of NPR and should not have happened.\u00a0 It should be noted that NPR left Twitter after Elon Musk purchased that platform and listed NPR as a government affiliated news source.\u00a0\u00a0 Guess, they did not like the truth.\u00a0\u00a0 There is also ample evidence to support the accusation that NPR has been pro-Hamas and the Palestinians, in the current conflict with Israel.<\/p>\n

As far as the audience for NPR is concerned, a recent poll showed that 87% of listeners are Democrats and only 12% are Republicans.\u00a0 Clearly, the fact that the broadcast content is favoring one side of the political divide is obvious to the listeners.\u00a0 Of concern is that many of the local stations that broadcast NPR, are affiliated with universities and the listeners are predominantly college graduates\/students.<\/p>\n

So, what we have here is a leftist biased media platform that was originally started by the federal government that has morphed into a biased left wing media platform funded mostly by private sources.\u00a0 While they may be unduly influencing university students and younger people, the conservative audience appears fully aware of what ideology is supported by NPR; and has obviously chosen other media platforms.\u00a0 There appears to be two options for conservatives.\u00a0 The first is to cease all federal taxpayer funding as proposed in legislation by Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-TX; or second, to leave the funding in place and use it to apply pressure for a less biased and more balanced programming and content.\u00a0 Holding NPR accountable to the public as was done in the recent Congressional hearings may be the most effective.\u00a0 We will see what Congress decides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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