National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher has been thoroughly exposed as a radical in recent days as one of NPR’s veteran editors—Uri Berliner—actually told the truth and revealed that the taxpayer-sponsored “news organization” is hopelessly biased toward the progressive viewpoint. For this transgression, he was promptly suspended; he said thank you but take a hike, I’m resigning.
The highly publicized back-and-forth led inquiring minds to take a closer look at Maher’s past, and what they found out is that she’s a radical extremist who thinks the leftist narrative is more important than the actual truth and that those who don’t stick to said narrative should be silenced in the name of “progress.” She has her right to these opinions—but she doesn’t have the right to use our taxpayer money to foist them on the American public.
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the famous TV commercials where entrepreneur Victor Kiam would come on the screen and say, “I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company [Remington].” Elon Musk took a similar approach; he values free speech so highly that he shelled out $44 billion in 2022 to buy social media platform Twitter (now X), in part to fight rampant big-tech censorship. He promptly canned 80 percent of the company’s workforce, reinstated accounts that had been banned, and completely overhauled the company’s free speech policies.
Shut down NPR. Shut down PBS. No more tax payer funding. If NPR and PBS want to stay afloat, let them sell advertising. This country waste enough of the tax payers money on stupid crap. This also goes for state, county, city taxes as well.
Yes, 8:09!
“If NPR and PBS want to stay afloat, let them sell advertising. ”
but they already do sell advertising. Just shows that you have never listened. During Morning Edition and All Things Considered, they run those, “This program is brought to you by [insert comany]..” those are sold commercial advertising slots, just just cant call them that. They call them “underiters”- they are supposed to be in exchange for a donation. Thats why they have all sorts of weird restriction on what they cannot cannot say.
And yes, I have listened to NPR for many years. ( not any more ) .
There is no advertising on NPR. What you hear is ” brought to you by…. sponsored by … ”
Those companies only sponsor a segment of the program. You don’t hear a 30 – 60 second commercial about a product they are selling. What hear hear the most is the program is being sponsored by a foundation. Example ‘ The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation ‘ . What I hated the most when I was listening was there week long, two week long fund raising. ” We need to raise $100,000 during the next hour to keep this program on the air ” Than they go around thanking the people that donated. And that went on for every show during that time period. Sounds like a modern day ” go fund me ” account.
I long for the days of ” click and clack the tappet brothers. Car talk , Bob and Ray, NPR play house, Wait…wait…don’t tell me. ” Most if not all programing on NPR is purchased. They have very little original on air programing. During the morning and afternoon rush, one might hear a local traffic report about every 15 minutes or so.
How much federal money does PBS get?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR’s and PBS’s parent, received $525 million for fiscal 2024. Of that, $367 million went to public television stations. Public radio stations got $126 million.Apr 19, 2023. While PBS does not make money per viewer in the traditional sense, they do rely on donations and government funding to operate.Mar 25, 2023
I’m jumping off my soap box now.