{"id":2226015,"date":"2024-04-20T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/partisan-propaganda-machine-republicans-push-to-defund-npr-over-political-bias\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T18:21:50","slug":"partisan-propaganda-machine-republicans-push-to-defund-npr-over-political-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/partisan-propaganda-machine-republicans-push-to-defund-npr-over-political-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Moves to Defund NPR Citing Political Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fpartisan-propaganda-machine-republicans-push-to-defund-npr-over-political-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=2226015&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>House and\u200b Senate Republicans seek to defund NPR following revelations of liberal bias by a former editor \u200cand controversial comments from CEO Katherine\u200d Maher. Sen. \u2062Marsha Blackburn introduced a bill to cut funding, supported by Reps. Jim Banks, Claudia Tenney, and Bob Good. Banks criticized Maher&#8217;s leadership, calling NPR \u200b&#8221;low-grade propaganda.&#8221; The move is justified by \u200dclaims of partisan bias within the outlet.  <\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republicans in the House and Senate are pushing to defund NPR after a now-former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-law-diversity-director-at-center-of-traphouse-controversy-got-an-anti-semite-invited-to-the-yale-law-journal\/\" title=\"Yale Law Diversity Director at Center of \u2018Traphouse\u2019 Controversy Got an Anti-Semite Invited to the Yale Law Journal\">editor wrote<\/a> an essay exposing the liberal bias of the outlet and reports broke on leftist comments made by CEO Katherine Maher. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following Sen. Marsha Blackburn\u2019s (R-TN) introduction of a bill last week to pull government funding from NPR, Republican Reps. Jim Banks (IN), Claudia Tenney (NY), and Bob Good (VA) all introduced their own legislation to end funding for the outlet. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banks introduced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/banks.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/defund_npr_act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">his measure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on Friday, taking aim at Maher and calling NPR\u00a0\u201clow grade propaganda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNPR\u2019s new CEO is a radical, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebs-rage-in-defeat-after-barrett-confirmation-revolting-disgraceful-unconscionable\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebs Rage in Defeat After Barrett Confirmation: 'Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable'\">left-wing activist<\/a> who doesn\u2019t believe in free speech or objective journalism,\u201d Banks said in a statement. \u201cHoosiers shouldn\u2019t be writing her paychecks. Katherine Maher isn\u2019t qualified to teach an introductory journalism class, much less capable of responsibly spending millions of American tax dollars.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, clips of Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-male-westernized-npr-president-said-she-opposed-wikipedias-free-and-open-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted by<\/a> journalist Chris Rufo show Maher saying that the \u201cnumber one challenge\u201d for her in fighting so-called disinformation was the First Amendment, which she called a \u201cfairly robust protection of rights.\u201d She also claimed that former President Donald Trump was a racist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-ceo-of-npr-is-everything-wrong-with-the-news-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> about her desire to go on a road trip with Vice President Kamala Harris eating \u201cnuts and baklava.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tenney, who <a href=\"https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congresswoman-tenney-moves-defund-npr#:~:text=%22My%20legislation%2C%20the%20Defund%20NPR,bias%20in%20our%20news%20media.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced<\/a> the \u201cDefund NPR Act of 2024\u201d said that the outlet had become a \u201cpartisan propaganda machine.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs a former newspaper owner and publisher, I understand the importance of non-partisan, balanced media coverage, and have seen first-hand the <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> in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-real-clear-politics-say-they-never-called-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Real Clear Politics -- SAY THEY NEVER CALLED PENNSYLVANIA\">news media<\/a>,\u201d she said. \u201cNPR is using American taxpayer dollars to manipulate the news and lie to the American people on behalf of a political agenda. It\u2019s past time the American people stop footing the bill for NPR, and the partisan, left-wing activists that control it.\u201d<\/span><\/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=1713635892817000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3lXMk_jhNQC8Fngje8e8XV\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good <a href=\"https:\/\/good.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-good-calls-defunding-biased-npr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced<\/a> similar legislation alongside eight co-sponsors, saying that it was \u201cegregious\u201d for taxpayers to be backing partisan news coverage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lawmakers\u2019 push comes after now-former senior business editor Uri Berliner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote an essay<\/a> in the Free Press saying that the network had lost the trust of Americans because of its coverage of things like gender ideology and refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead up to the 2020 election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berliner, who resigned days after the essay was published, said that NPR lacked serious viewpoint diversity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s frictionless \u2014 one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies,\u201d he wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Republicans aim to defund NPR due to liberal bias revelations by a former editor and leftist remarks from CEO Katherine Maher. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a bill last week to cut government funding. Republican representatives are now actively supporting this move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2226016,"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-1247390553.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226015","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-1247390553.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226015","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}