Two pieces on the emancipation of npr (and the American taxpayer)

By "W"

Sent: friday, July 18, 2025 at 04:45:09 p.m. edt

Two pieces on the emancipation of NPR (and the American taxpayer)

I enjoyed Dr WHO, which I first saw on the Baltimore PBS station decades ago. When I was working in [deleted] , I'd watch "Mystery" ... over the Central Michigan University PBS TV station. And there was "All Creatures Great and Small" about the Yorkshire vets. The Sherlock Holmes series. And British comedies.  The current supremo of NPR is so far in left field. I've enjoyed her grilling by MTG and others.

Gone, gone....

A colleague: As one who appeared in a fair-minded, informative segment about ecological carrying capacity on NPR's "Morning Edition" back in the good ol' days of sardonic host Bob Edwards, and as one who modestly supported NPR and PBS affiliates with my checkbook for many years until I wearied of their overweening wokeness, I lament what things have come to. But American taxpayers should not be supporting this loony, lefty propaganda. NPR has become a parody of itself. 

The Bell Finally Tolls for National Propaganda Radio

Public media can be a great thing, but the current iteration treats America like a foreign country

Matt Taibbi Jul 16 ∙ Preview For most of its history, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have been a combined net plus for American citizens. They produced pioneering programs ranging from NOVA to This Old House to Frontline, and introduced Americans to cool foreign programs like Doctor Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and I, Claudius. The quintessential PBS show was informative and quirky without pulling ideological threads, even if its Masterpiece roster sometimes over-scratched the upscale viewer's costume-drama itch. From nature shows to comedy to documentaries, PBS was a sound counterweight to the boobs-and-car-chase lineups on commercial TV, providing the most remote communities with quality programming. It should have run forever. National Public Radio ruined the enterprise, turning the country's signature public news shows into an endless partisan therapy session, a Nine Perfect Strangers retreat for high-income audiences micro-dosing on Marx and Kendi. Forget conservatives, NPR's trademark half-whispered stylings linking diets to rape culture or denouncing white teeth as a hangover of colonialism began in recent years to feel like physical punishment to the most apolitical listeners, like having a blind librarian hacksaw your forehead. ------ Happy Independence Day, NPR The Senate just voted to cut federal funding for the news organization I worked at for 25 years. It only has itself to blame. By Uri Berliner 07.17.25 — U.S. Politics https://www.thefp.com/s/us-politics  Embracing the mantras of the Great Awokening, NPR became a caricature of itself with headlines like these: Microfeminism: The Next Big Thing in Fighting the Patriarchy Which Skin Color Emoji Should You Use? The Answer Can Be More Complex than You Think Black Women's Groups Find Health and Healing on Hikes, But Sometimes Racism, Too Bringing Diversity to Maine's Nearly All-White Lobster Fleet Diet Culture Can Hurt Kids. This Author Advises Parents to Reclaim the Word 'Fat' These Drag Artists Know How to Turn Climate Activism into a Joyful Blowout Inside NPR, rules on the use of language reflected the direction and mindset of the organization. We were told to avoid the term biological sex, warned not to say illegal immigrant (a hurtful label). A racial punctuation hierarchy was imposed; black would be uppercase, white lowercase. NPR adopted the phrase "gender affirming care" to describe childhood medical interventions that can mean sterilization and the surgical removal of genitals. These were not merely style choices. They were tribal signals, ideological markers.