Re: Media Watchdog Goes Full Throttle On Defunding NPR, PBS With Letters To Trump, Congress

On 4/21/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

A conservative media watchdog has a new top priority — defunding NPR
and PBS.
 
The Media Research Center (MRC) is leading a push to defund both public
media outlets, urging President Donald Trump, congressional leaders,
and governors to strip taxpayer subsidies to these “far-left media
outlets,” the group revealed exclusively to The Daily Wire.
 
The watchdog urged the Trump administration to include the “complete
defunding” of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its
affiliates, PBS and NPR, in a rescission package that could soon be
sent to Congress.
 
“Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a media entity that has
outlived its original purpose and refuses to operate in a transparent
manner,” the MRC wrote in its letter to Trump.
 
The watchdog is calling on the CEOs of NPR and PBS to subject
themselves to public audits and asking members of Congress to refuse to
meet with their lobbyists until those audits are done.
 
The MRC is also calling on congressional leaders to repeal the
legislation that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
 
Finally, the group is calling on state governors and federal agencies
to halt all discretionary grants to PBS and NPR until the outlets are
audited.
 
A coalition of critics joined the MRC in signing letters to elected
officials, including Seth Dillon, owner of the Babylon Bee; Mike
Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Terry Schilling,
president of the American Principles Project; Steven Ertelt, editor at
LifeNews.com; and Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and
Human Rights.
 
“This action is in concert with your historic promise and rapid
delivery of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal
government,” the coalition wrote to Trump.
 
The group argued that the “original justification” for the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting “no longer holds.”
 
“In today’s media-rich environment, Americans have unlimited access
to news, entertainment, and educational programming,” they wrote in
their letter to Trump.

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Well, that's a lie, we have a media impoverishment from
media monopolization, with a tiny concentrated set of owners.
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The primary guilt of NPR and PBS is they never offered an
alternative to mainstream media, they have always had a
Jewish management, which means they take the same political
view that "Jews are always right" and non-Jews are always
to blame for everything bad.
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“NPR’s and PBS’s demonstrable, documented bias further erodes
CPB’s credibility,” the group wrote. “NPR’s audience
overwhelmingly identifies as liberal, reinforcing the reality that
public broadcasting is not a neutral service but a taxpayer-funded
ideological platform. Americans should not be forced to finance a
network that caters to one side of the political spectrum.”
 
Dan Schneider, vice president of the MRC, told The Daily Wire that
defunding PBS and NPR is his organization’s “top priority right
now.”
 
The goal is to “eliminate every dime of taxpayer money that
subsidizes these liberal media behemoths,” Schneider said.
 
“This is the most focused and aggressive takedown these outlets have
ever faced. It may be the last, best chance taxpayers will ever have to
unburden themselves from these leftist propaganda outlets once and for
all,” he said.
 

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If they change spots and become a Conservative media outlet Trump says
he'll more than fund them.   It's their unfaithfulness to the President,
always criticizing him and accusing him of being a liar.   The government
is going to defund the military to pay for our tax cuts so why not the
President's ideological enemies.  

Once all of Trump's Executive Orders have been made law they will be
defunded forever.    Why doesn't President Trump threaten schools with
defunding if they refuse to play Fox News all day in the classrooms?   
Another way to make America great again because it was a third world
shithole under Biden.    Children must be taught Conservative values and to
always vote Conservative, and never call Trump a liar.