All things considered, National Public Radio is seen as the left-leaning part of American journalism. Conservatives have known this for a long time. It took a veteran NPR editor with a grudge and some old tweets to emphasize that the public radio show "Fresh Air" smells of left-wing bias.
So, the question is: Why are American taxpayers funding this Pravda?
Some lawmakers are saying that they have had enough.
U.S. Representative Bob Good, R-Va., is introducing a bill to stop NPR's funding. The draft of the bill, provided exclusively to The Federalist, stops federal money in general from going to the radio network. The bill specifically prohibits federal funds from being used for NPR dues and for acquiring radio programs for broadcast stations or the internet.
No grants, loans, cooperative agreements or direct federal funds.
Done.
"Too many media outlets push their biased agenda instead of reporting the news. National Public Radio has a history of promoting an anti-American narrative using taxpayer money, while suppressing opposing perspectives," Good said in a statement to The Federalist. "My legislation would guarantee that no taxpayer money is used to fund NPR's biased left-wing propaganda."
Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is considering various options to cut federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which gives grants to NPR, Fox News reported this week.
"The mainstream media is focused on serving the Left's interests and attacking conservative voices—and NPR has been at the forefront," Blackburn said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "It is illogical that taxpayers are required to finance a left-leaning outlet that refuses to represent the views of a large portion of the country. NPR should not receive our tax dollars."
Left-leaning staff at the News Desk
NPR's Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner, who worked with the network for 25 years resigned recently after being suspended for a tell-all essay he wrote about NPR's left-leaning environment.
"An open-minded attitude no longer exists within NPR, and now, as expected, we don’t have an audience that represents America," Berliner said in The Free Press last week. "This wouldn’t be an issue for a news outlet openly presenting a specific viewpoint to a niche audience. However, for NPR, which claims to consider all perspectives, this has a damaging impact on its journalism and its business model." wrote Berliner was immediately suspended, so he resigned.
It has long been hard to claim with a straight face that National Public Radio is an unbiased news outlet, although liberals have tried. But there's no denying Katherine Maher. NPR’s new CEO, who previously led Wikipedia, has expressed extremely left-leaning views in her activist past, and they are now coming back to haunt her and the publicly funded radio network she leads.
Apart from criticizing former President Donald Trump on Twitter, Maher defended looters in the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
It's become clear that NPR is not an objective news outlet. a racist Maher said that while looting is not helpful, it's understandable that protests don't focus on protecting private property in a system that was built on treating people's ancestors as property.
on her Twitter account at the time. wrote She also clarified that she's not equating instigators with protesters and emphasized that the focus should be on more important issues than reporting on burned shoe stores during the riots.
DEI cult pusher,
Maher is a too — which doesn’t bode well for an already identity-obsessed NPR. Maher, acknowledging her privilege, expressed her commitment to staying in the US and working towards ending the oppressive system.
Maher has talked about her past involvement with the government's efforts to censor information, particularly on Wikipedia during the 2020 election.
She mentioned that they set up a system to provide accurate information in response to the pandemic and the upcoming US election, serving as a model for future elections.
It was revealed that NPR was also involved in similar efforts before hiring its new chief censor earlier this year.
It's described as a leftist echo chamber with no room for opposing views because there simply aren't any.
He found that in Washington, D.C., where NPR is based, there were 87 registered Democrats in editorial roles and no Republicans, which raised concerns about the lack of viewpoint diversity.
Some of his colleagues have called for NPR's CEO to address Berliner's questioning of their journalistic integrity.
A letter signed by 50 NPR employees was sent to urge stronger support for staff whose expertise was publicly challenged, as well as more transparency regarding the consequences of unauthorized public comments that attempt to change NPR's editorial direction.
posted the letter to X. “We also urge more transparency regarding the consequences of making unauthorized public comments that seek to change NPR’s editorial direction. ‘Out of Kilter with the Country’
NPR defenders like to say the radio network receives minuscule federal funding — a mere 1 percent. They’re lying.
Howard Husock of the American Enterprise Institute wrote a year ago in an
for The Hill headlined, “The Truth About NPR’s Funding — and its Possible Future.” op-ed The House and Senate approved a funding bill last month, providing $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for fiscal year 2026, maintaining the two-year advance funding precedent for public media.
The House and Senate's support of the value provided by our nation's public media is appreciated. Our trusted, nonpartisan, educational and informational content, available to all Americans for free and without advertisements, motivates citizens of all ages and strengthens our civil society.
CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison expressed this in a press release before the NPR incident occurred. said Now NPR’s reputation as a “nonpartisan” content provider is being questioned more than ever. However, we have faced similar challenges before. In 2011, Republicans
attempted to reduce government funds from the CPB after a video showed an NPR fundraiser criticizing Tea Party activists and the GOP. They’re killing Big Bird! liberals and their pals in the accomplice media screamed. In reality, Sesame Street visited Capitol Hill for a Democrat-organized press briefing to request additional taxpayer money. Taxpayers continue to fund this today. However, Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., a strong advocate for NPR defunding, believes that the case for discontinuing funding is now stronger than ever. He stated that the outcome of the appropriations battles will depend on whether Democrats are willing to forego public broadcasting funding for another priority.
“For a taxpayer-funded news source to be that out of kilter with the country as a whole is really just inexcusable,” the congressman said.
Berliner is not one of those advocating for Congress to cut NPR’s federal funding.
“I don’t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and hope for NPR to thrive and produce important journalism,” he stated on his X account. “But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am insulted by a new CEO whose divisive views only confirm the very problems at NPR I mention in my Free Press essay.”
All things considered, NPR had a very bad week. wrote Rep. Bob Good is proposing a bill that would prevent federal funding from being allocated to the radio network.
All things considered, NPR had a very bad week.
