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

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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.

Well, that's a lie, we have a media impoverishment from
media monopolization, with a tiny concentrated set of owners.

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.


> 
> “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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Media Watchdog Goes Full Throttle On Defunding NPR, PBS With Letters To Trump, Congress Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> - 2025-04-21 04:30 -0400
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