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Hooray! Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for NPR, PBS's lefty propaganda

Hooray! Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for NPR, PBS's lefty propaganda

New York Post18-07-2025
Congress is finally defunding public broadcasting, and it's about time.
Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for the toxic, biased propaganda that federally funded media have been poisoning America with for the last 60 years.
The argument for government-run media has always been dubious at best; it's what dictators use to control and discipline the public.
The news media is supposed to scrutinize and reveal what our leaders are doing. How does that work when the government — of any sort — is picking up the bill?
Imagine if the government paid for newspapers. Would you trust the news it reported?
Ken Burns, who made the Civil War and baseball documentaries that aired on PBS, says that without public broadcasting, farmers won't hear the weather forecast. Their crops will be ruined.
Somebody tell Ken this isn't the Dust Bowl-era. Farmers today use GPS and AI to optimize irrigation and improve yields per acre.
They aren't huddled around the wireless waiting for the crop report from a publicly funded broadcaster.
Liberal supporters of PBS love to say that conservatives are trying to kill Big Bird. But 'Sesame Street' long ago partnered with HBO, and now Netflix. The Muppets brand is owned by Disney.
Market-driven programming ensures that quality content — for kids and adults — will reach its audience.
There's no lack of outlets. Cable and satellite television offer hundreds of channels, not to mention the Internet. There is more content out there than could be watched in a lifetime.
Perhaps there's an argument to be made for non-profit media. But that's why public television calls itself 'viewer supported' and runs fundraisers all the time.
The people who like it send in a few bucks every year to keep it going. You didn't think all those tote bags were free, did you?
Anyway, public broadcasting still has corporate 'sponsorship.' The companies just run their commercials at the beginning and end of the shows instead of the middle.
On top of everything, though, PBS and NPR had became overtly identified with lefty viewpoints.
Liberal to far-left opinions ran through all public media-sponsored news, documentaries, commentary and even featured programming.
NPR CEO Katherine Maher called Donald Trump a a 'deranged, racist sociopath.' She viewed 'reverence for truth' a 'distraction' that 'prevents us from getting things done.'
Maybe that's why NPR buried The Post's Hunter Biden laptop story, saying it was 'not really a story' and a 'distraction.'
The PBS NewsHour also dismissed the story as 'Russian disinformation.'
NPR ran stories defending looting. PBS featured a boy drag queen called 'Lil Miss Hot Mess' on a show for small children.
We live in a free country. People can produce and consume all kinds of programming for their enjoyment. And if it's good, it will find a paying audience.
But there's simply no reason for our taxes to support it. Audiences that want that programming can fund it themselves.
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