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[Satire] NPR and PBS Are Begging for Mercy. They Don’t Deserve It

Summary by The Heritage Foundation

NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, Sesame Street got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online. Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be no advance warning systems for weather emergencies in hard-to-reach places and that local news coverage will dry up…

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NPR and PBS Are Begging for Mercy. They Don’t Deserve It

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NewsBusters

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Bill Maher Says NPR's 'Crazy Far Left,' PBS and NPR 'Have To Be Private'

During his online "Overtime" segment, Maher read a viewer question based on this week's House DOGE hearing with the CEOs of NPR and PBS questioning their political tilt. The viewer asked: "Should the government continue to send taxpayer dollars to public broadcasting? " Maher confused defunding PBS with dismantling PBS: "The Republicans have wanted to get rid of PBS for as long as I can remember. This crowd will probably do it." Maher suggested …

10 days ago·Washington, United States

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WND

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Will Republicans finally pull the plug on PBS and NPR? * WorldNetDaily * by Robert Knight

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is in the news again. The iconic Sesame Street puppet Kermit the Frog will give the 2025 commencement address at the University of Maryland (UM). Kermit’s appearance on May 21 will coincide with the 65thanniversary of the graduation of UM’s Jim Henson, who was awarded a degree in home economics in 1960. In a press release, “Kermit” said he will keep the address upbeat, even though, as he puts it, “It…

10 days ago·Medford, United States

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Conservative Angle

Column: Jeffrey Goldberg Congratulates Himself All Over PBS - Conservative Angle

At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) asked PBS boss Paula Kerger: “Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?” She said “yes.” Fallon then noted that on Washington Week with The Atlantic in 2023, host and Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg pronounced President Biden as “mentally quite acute.” Fallon asked Kerger if there were “any dissenting opinions” on that episode…

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Satire: Big Bird is a Marxist

At the latest DOGE congressional hearing, “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” public officials got down to business, cracking down on radical ideology and draining the swamp. Head honcho of the investigation, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), is speaking up for the silent, moral majority: These outlets have a strictly communist agenda. PBS’s secret plans to brainwash children were exposed at this hearing. Our s…

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