{"id":2218564,"date":"2024-04-11T15:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:05:59","slug":"trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump demands NPR funding cut over bias accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2218564&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President \u200cDonald Trump, seeking reelection, called for defunding NPR over claims \u200cof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snopes-posts-bogus-pro-aoc-fact-check-ends-up-exposing-its-left-wing-bias\/\" title=\"Snopes Posts Bogus Pro-AOC \u2018Fact Check,\u2019 Ends Up Exposing Its Left-Wing Bias\">left-wing bias<\/a>.\u200c Urged by a senior NPR editor&#8217;s \u2064critique, Trump labeled the\u2062 network a &#8220;liberal disinformation machine&#8221; on Truth \u2062Social. Despite calls for defunding, NPR&#8217;s Senior \u2063Business Editor advocated for internal change. Trump&#8217;s push to cut public media funding aligns with his policy agenda, elevating his influence within\u200d the GOP.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who is running another campaign for the White House, demanded this week that funding be cut from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/national-public-radio-npr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio (NPR)<\/a> after a longtime NPR editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> the network of espousing left-wing bias.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO \u2018DAMAGE TRUMP.\u2019 THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112248653824267212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a post to Truth Social on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Press published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> on Tuesday in which NPR Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner argued NPR \u201clost America\u2019s trust\u201d with its increasingly liberal bent. Despite his critique, Berliner said \u201cdefunding\u201d was not the way to address the \u201cmissteps\u201d he outlined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the country becomes more fractured, there\u2019s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith. Defunding, as a rebuke from Congress, wouldn\u2019t change the journalism at NPR. That needs to come from within,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple times during his presidency, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/02\/donald-trump-public-media-pbs-npr-1202856498\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed<\/a> reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. If he is re-elected this year, that could change. As noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/11\/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO report<\/a> after the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-blocks-fisa-spy-bill-opponents-demand-warrant-requirement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked the advancement of a FISA bill<\/a> that Trump opposed, the former president is \u201ctightening his stranglehold on the congressional GOP\u2019s policy agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ditched<\/a> Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/04\/12\/1169269161\/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisted<\/a> it \u201creceives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.\u201d Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/178660742\/public-radio-finances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cessential\u201d<\/a> and that ending it \u201cwould result in fewer programs, less journalism \u2014 especially local journalism\u2014and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his op-ed,\u00a0Berliner talked about how the \u201crise of advocacy took off\u201d when Trump got elected to the White House in the 2016 election when he defeated Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly),\u201d Berliner said. \u201cBut what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/employee-npr-tracks-race-sex-of-sources-and-lets-trans-activists-police-its-language\/\" title=\"Employee: NPR monitors the race and gender of sources, allowing transgender activists to oversee its language\">truth-impaired president veered<\/a> toward efforts to damage or topple Trump\u2019s presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berliner discussed how NPR interviewed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) dozens of times, during which he often spoke about there being evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, but the network offered up \u201cnotably sparse\u201d coverage when Robert Mueller\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catch-the-crucial-durham-discovery\/\" title=\"Catch the Crucial Durham Discovery.\">special counsel report released<\/a> in 2019 found \u201cno credible evidence of collusion\u201d and let Russiagate \u201cfade\u201d from its programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens,\u201d Berliner said. \u201cYou follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you\u2019re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It\u2019s bad to blow a big story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The editor shared an anecdote about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which emerged prior to the 2020 election, saying it was \u201cnewsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR\u2019s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren\u2019t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Berliner also said he found 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans working editorial positions in D.C., where NPR is headquartered, but when he shared the data in a staff meeting and suggested there was a diversity problem, \u201cthe response wasn\u2019t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenMullin\/status\/1777773343267062201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> a statement saying that she and her colleagues on the leadership team \u201cstrongly disagree with Uri\u2019s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes.\u201d She also said, \u201cWe\u2019re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest White House campaign, Donald Trump called to defund NPR following allegations of left-wing bias by a senior editor. Trump&#8217;s tweet read, &#8220;NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2218565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147031023-scaled-e1712853813320.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2147031023-scaled-e1712853813320.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}