NPR is facing significant challenges, including a decline in audience from 60 million in 2020 to 42 million today, a decrease in sponsorship revenue, and internal conflicts over diversity initiatives. These issues have sparked a debate over the network's funding and direction. Critics, including some lawmakers, are calling for the defunding of NPR, citing concerns over biased coverage and misuse of taxpayer money. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has defended the network, dismissing the criticism as distractions and bad faith distortions. The controversy has been highlighted by major publications like The New York Times, which reported on systemic concerns at NPR, including whistleblower Uri Berliner's claims of liberal bias.
The first step to fix NPR is for Congress to cease all federal funding for so-call public media (PBS, CPB, NPR, & local stations). h/t @MissionLoco https://t.co/0g9prMwJSh
RUH ROH! Inside the Crisis at NPR “NPR listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil.” https://t.co/c1oO8GmUmn #DefundNPR
NPR Will Never Face Its Intellectual Rot Until Taxpayer Funds Stop Flowing https://t.co/wg4qnn9Jja
NY Times keeps spotlight on NPR ‘crisis’ on heels of Uri Berliner blowing whistle on liberal bias https://t.co/IyTO1G1ajU
This is Katherine Maher’s ideology: bringing the Color Revolution home. She wants us to “reimagine our democratic future” according to US regime-change models in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. https://t.co/23eQbgnWrm
NPR Whistleblower Highlights Everything Wrong With Journalism Today https://t.co/CDYj0VN9Fn
All the controversy about Katherine Maher’s “woke” posts misses a serious issue — her involvement in CIA-sponsored color revolutions abroad. https://t.co/Tl8DgaPrbQ
NPR CEO Who Criticized First Amendment, Wore Biden Hat Tries To Defend Herself: ‘Nuanced Perspective’ https://t.co/y7CXVIrxwh
NYT: “A yearslong push to diversify NPR’s staff, in part to lure listeners beyond its aging and predominantly white audience, hasn’t generated the listenership boost some executives had hoped for.” https://t.co/bAovXWX9Rr
GTFO! NPR boss suspected by some of being closely connected to the U.S. intel community at some point in her career. That's one way to get big scoops. 😬 https://t.co/GifEIfpash
The NYT is reporting that NPR's audience has declined by nearly one-third since 2020. Meanwhile, its employees want to double-down on racialist ideology and its new CEO finds herself ensnared in a series of troubling scandals. The squeeze is on.
people literally cited her own tweets NPR Chief Defends Coverage and Hits Back at 'Bad Faith' Criticism https://t.co/9bhdbmqaPL
NPR's activist CEO Katherine Maher is leading the "Color Revolution" in America. https://t.co/Pa97hxc98H
.@virginiafoxx and @RepSteel are raising concerns about fraud within the federal student financial aid system. They are demanding a briefing and answers on ED's efforts to prevent and remedy these issues. Haisten Willis w/ @dcexaminer has more⤵️ https://t.co/vUV0gPLitH
We’ve known for a while that National PUBLIC Radio no longer represents the public. They’ve long pushed a far-Left agenda. I’m proud to cosponsor @RepRonnyJackson bill to defund NPR. https://t.co/Fq3pVodOt9 #DefundNPR
NPR made promoting DEI "…not only a moral imperative but a foundation of its business strategy." Once again we see that NPR isn’t remotely committed to unbiased coverage, but woke and weaponized propaganda. Your hardworking tax dollars should not be funding this garbage.…
NPR CEO Katherine Maher has been interested in the potential for using radio as a tool for social engineering for many years. In 2010, as @realchrisrufo found, Maher wrote an article wondering "Can a Radio Station Govern a Country?" https://t.co/VBcpqcsCYk https://t.co/PUIXKzn6xM
As a regime-change activist in the Middle East and North Africa, Katherine Maher helped spread dissent. As a regime-change activist in America, Katherine Maher used her position at Wikipedia to suppress it. It's not hypocrisy; it's friend-enemy politics. https://t.co/8GfkTvvscG https://t.co/K0X5aAwiG4
NEWS: NPR is collapsing. Weekly audience is down from 60 million in 2020 to 42 million today. Former executive says something needs to change soon or it will be unsustainable. (Via NYT) https://t.co/pvtDjYR0HC
Internal documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with current and former NPR execus show how the nonprofit is struggling to succeed. It is grappling with a declining audience and falling revenue — and internal conflict about how to fix it. https://t.co/kxlb958FM3
NPR CEO slams Uri Berliner’s ‘bad faith distortion’ of her woke social media posts https://t.co/cFeLpcxruU https://t.co/HNW29pfVWM
Inside the Crisis at NPR “Listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil. Can America’s public radio network turn things around?” https://t.co/hb23DVYEBD
Here's a juicy little tidbit from the New York Times' surprisingly critical article on NPR's direction cc:@realchrisrufo https://t.co/oBzquJmHX5
The NYT looks at NPR and finds far more systemic concerns than those that have dominated recent weeks @BenMullin & Jeremy Peters https://t.co/ceV0sJCCLW
I spoke out against funding NPR and other public media outlets because it’s absolutely absurd to think if we let government be the arbiter of all information that they won’t tip the scale. #NoPropagandaAct https://t.co/1ySUR0l116
Under fire new NPR chief breaks her silence to accuse critics of 'a very bad faith distortion of her views' - but REFUSES to accept whistleblower's claims against the station's liberal bias https://t.co/rIXmg4aDzU https://t.co/5fTsyJl95O
NPR chief Katherine Maher told @alexbruell the controversy over the radio network's coverage and diversity policies is a distraction, and addressed concerns over her views on the First Amendment https://t.co/XzvZUpW1LJ
NPR chief Katherine Maher said the controversy over the radio network's coverage and diversity policies is a distraction, and addressed concerns over her views on the First Amendment https://t.co/FvO1aOHFyi
Biden’s botched rollout of the FAFSA is hurting students making decisions about college. I’m demanding @DeptofEd focus on the FAFSA – on behalf of Iowa families. https://t.co/7xKcneXywq
As a former newspaper owner & publisher, I understand the importance of nonpartisan, balanced media coverage. Free speech is essential to our country, making it imperative that taxpayer money doesn't fund a left-wing propaganda machine like NPR. https://t.co/EOdeGaLblq
Taxpayers are outraged by the Biden Administration misusing our hard-earned money to campaign for Biden. Federal agencies shouldn’t be involved in America’s election process and I’m working alongside my @HouseSmallBiz colleagues to stop any lawless actions and abuse of resources… https://t.co/mRzKmitlEu
Americans' tax dollars should not be used to fund partisan propaganda or political activism. That’s why I proudly co-sponsored @RepJimBanks's Defund the NPR Act! https://t.co/y0OEV1843B
I joined Dr. @virginiafoxx and the @EdWorkforceCmte in sending a letter to @SecCardona to get answers on the Biden administration's potentially illegal maneuvers to make taxpayers foot the bill for his free college agenda. Read more in the WA Examiner. ⬇️ https://t.co/kMNmuei5JB
AUSTIN PETERSEN: Defund NPR—Obviously https://t.co/2eGk6mJOdm
No funds for FAFSA should support Biden’s student loan bailout. @RepJuliaLetlow and I are demanding a full review of how @DeptofEd spent taxpayer dollars meant for FAFSA. https://t.co/sUJpNbFr5a