Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks introduced legislation Friday to defund National Public Radio (NPR).
The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the legislation, which is titled the Defund NPR Act. The bill would cut off any federal funds to NPR.
An NPR editor, Uri Berliner, published a piece alleging the outlet has deep political bias and that the Washington D.C. bureau employs 87 registered Democrats and zero registered Republicans.
NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, has also made headlines as old tweets and clips of her show political bias. Maher, who was hired in March, previously expressed support for President Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and called former President Donald Trump a “racist” in 2018. She has also described the First Amendment as “the number one challenge” to combatting “misinformation.”
“NPR’s new CEO is a radical, left-wing activist who doesn’t believe in free speech or objective journalism. Hoosiers shouldn’t be writing her paychecks. Katherine Maher isn’t qualified to teach an introductory journalism class, much less capable of responsibly spending millions of American tax dollars,” Banks told the Caller before introducing the bill.
“NPR was a liberal looney bin under the last CEO John Lansing, and it’s about to get even nuttier. It’s time to pull the plug on this national embarrassment. Congress must stop spending other people’s hard-earned money on low grade propaganda,” he added.
The legislation has appeared to pick up the support of businessman Elon Musk, who said it was “great” Banks is introducing the bill.
@9LNVDD43wks3W
Americans don't understand what public services are. Any functioning community needs public services, and yes, having public services is a left-wing idea. The bottom line is that functional communities are left wing communities. That's not an ideological argument, it's a basic fact of life that you need to work with others and accept everyone's basic equality in order to have a society. Of course NPR is left-leaning. Everyone who works with others to make a society function is left leaning.
@Dry550Independent 3wks3W
Don’t cut funding for NPR.
Although NPR is a left leaning news outlet…it’s a hell of a lot more insightful than any right leaning news outlet…I personally can’t find one besides Fox News, and they are bias too. If you cut funding for public radio, you run the risk of the less fortunate to be lost in world events and thus creating or helping to create more ignorance throughout the country.
@MajorityEllaUnity3wks3W
What's the proposal to fix it? Require the political affiliations of each potential hire be revealed and keep the ratios even? What political categories?
Republicans, Democtrats, Libertarians, Independents, or what?
The best solution may just be to abolish it. I don't know that it could be fixed. What's the purpose of NPR anyhow other than being an outlet to promote failed Democrat policies and ideology.
They spoke about this at length. The best thing to do is for the local affiliate radio stations to boycott NPR.. don’t buy their programs. The local listeners have the power to demand this from the affiliate stations. This is where they get most of their money
The best policy is to simply defund it, just like PBS got defunded.
If people really want it as is, they'll use their own money to fund it.
@NeedyTwoPartyVeteran3wks3W
For those outside the US who don’t understand the fuss about NPR:
It:
1) Is federally funded
2) Is conspicuously partisan and vehemently ideological
3) Has a high % of listeners who vote
4) Spreads absurdities masquerading as virtues
5) Has betrayed the public’s trust
@HouseMadisonDemocrat3wks3W
Furthermore, NPR at one time was very respected, with extremely high quality production values. Best in the business, I'd argue. There was a time when I regarded it as superior to BBC in terms of quality.
Let's review: NPR hired a CEO who opposes a "free and open" internet, believes that truth is a "distraction," describes the First Amendment as a "challenge" to narrative control, and admits that she censored speech "through conversations with government."
This is NPR, exposed.
@MandateBuckConstitution3wks3W
I mean, the job of the CEO of NPR is to convince rich white liberals it’s a Very Important to donate to them (and pass bills to fund them). She seems perfectly suited to it.
@UnicornFrankRepublican3wks3W
The gov't should be entitled to a refund from NPR. But it isn't. So, now money for them in the future.
@Bureaucr4tClairePatriot3wks3W
Needs to happen. There should not be government-funded political activism disguised as news.
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