{"id":484653,"date":"2021-05-08T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=484653"},"modified":"2021-05-08T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:05:45","slug":"graham-npr-at-50-years-still-a-liberal-sandbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-npr-at-50-years-still-a-liberal-sandbox\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: NPR At 50 Years: Still A Liberal Sandbox"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fgraham-npr-at-50-years-still-a-liberal-sandbox%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=484653&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FF3D9813-9EB1-4A7C-A933-EF7CD14D30C8-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>National Public Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week in a classic way: asking its fans for money. A fundraising email gushes, \u201cFrom covering the Vietnam War in 1971 to the COVID-19 vaccination effort today, and everything in between, NPR has delivered fact-based news and trustworthy analysis to millions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of that \u201cfact-based news\u201d included \u201cfounding mother\u201d Nina Totenberg\u2019s attempts to ruin Douglas Ginsburg\u2019s Supreme Court nomination (successful) and then Clarence Thomas\u2019 nomination (unsuccessful). Years later, she did a syrupy sister act with feminist Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hosting RBG celebrations at awards shows and film festivals.<\/p>\n<p>NPR dismissed the pre-election story about Hunter Biden\u2019s alleged laptop as an example of \u201cpure distractions\u201d and then had to issue a correction to a January puff piece that had insisted the laptop story was \u201cdiscredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a conservative, you see NPR as a sandbox for liberals and object to your tax dollars going to that propaganda. If you\u2019re a liberal, you love it dearly and fight any attempt to cut its federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>On May 2, CBS \u201cSunday Morning\u201d shamelessly aired an eight-minute segment that was more like a commercial selling NPR\u2019s view of itself. Every single person interviewed on camera was a current or former NPR employee. At the end, host Jane Pauley oozed, \u201cBy the way, the producer of this report, \u2018Sunday Morning\u2019s\u2019 Jay Kernis, was himself a pioneering NPR staffer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporter on this story was Faith Salie, who announced in the middle that she\u2019s been a regular panelist on the snarky liberal NPR game show\/current events quiz \u201cWait! Wait! Don\u2019t Tell Me!\u201d for 12 years. The notion of a conflict of interest means nothing to CBS.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Salie wrote an angry article for the radical-feminist website Jezebel about battling Bill O\u2019Reilly on Fox News. \u201cOur country so condones the hatred and denigration of women that we\u2019ve voted it into the highest office in the land (with a helping, hairy hand from Fox News),\u201d she said. Don\u2019t ask Salie if she ever voted for a Clinton. Nina Totenberg didn\u2019t care about Bill Clinton\u2019s sex life.<\/p>\n<p>Salie began the \u201cSunday Morning\u201d segment by touting \u201c60 million weekly followers\u201d and then let NPR\u2019s first director of programming, Bill Siemering, insist \u201cit\u2019s not about ratings.\u201d I\u2019m sure NPR never gives potential underwriters a sheet of how many listeners they\u2019ll be reaching.<\/p>\n<p>Then Salie buried the notion that taxpayer money is involved, saying, \u201cMost of NPR\u2019s funding comes from corporate sponsors and from independent public radio stations around the country that buy its programming.\u201d That\u2019s just a lie. Public radio stations often buy NPR programming with so-called community service grants from the taxpayer-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>The only critical note came when NPR TV critic Eric Deggans was asked whether black Americans listen to NPR and he said: \u201cNo. \u2026 I think black folks \u2014 we have a highly developed sense of when our culture is included in programming. NPR is not that.\u201d We\u2019re told NPR\u2019s audience is 81% white.<\/p>\n<p>But the organization is trying to fix this with podcasts such as \u201cCode Switch,\u201d which just touted a story of two friends in Vermont who asked white people \u201cto give money directly to their Black neighbors\u201d as \u201ca DIY, hyper-local \u2018reparations\u2019 program, of sorts.\u201d The hosts confessed they\u2019re \u201cobsessed with reparations \u2026 sweet, delicious reparations.<\/p>\n<p>In this spirit, I would like to ask for a refund. I\u2019ve been paying taxes for more than 40 years, and I would like my involuntary donations to NPR returned to me. CBS can serve up one-sided stories on its own dime. But NPR is taking my dimes and either excluding or eviscerating my conservative point of view. Enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week in a classic way: asking its fans for money. 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