Twitter labeled NPR as US-State-Affiliated Media, and NPR wants the designation removed. NPR gets substantial funding from the US government funds with taxpayer dollars. That’s not the only or most important reason they are State media [like Pravda].
The fact that Democrats and leftists, in general, are angry should tell us something.
KJP gave a strong defense of NPR because it’s their media, thus the label:
Totally: the best way for a news outlet like @NPR to show they’re not beholden to the US government and are unbiased is to have the WH Press Secretary rise to her feet in defense of NPR and heap praise on their great reporting:pic.twitter.com/ygTRFPMkiO
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2023
President and CEO John Lansing, a longtime government operative, issued a statement:
NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.
My full statement on the recent inaccurate Twitter label below: pic.twitter.com/kdusUNtNUo— John Lansing (@johnlansing) April 5, 2023
NPR, State Propaganda
NPR hired a government propaganda chief as CEO. He was chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Martí, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others.
Typically, NPR hires government operatives in the upper echelons.
As an example of NPR’s bias, they wrote: “Four years ago, Lansing was named by President Barack Obama to be the first chief executive of the broadcasting outfit that was renamed the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Lansing has won plaudits from journalists for his rousing defense of a free press even while serving in the Trump administration, which has been notably hostile to traditional notions of the role of journalism in civic life.”
First, they mention his background running propagandized USAGM; then they make a gratuitous comment about Trump that’s not even true.
It’s ironic that a man who has spent his career facilitating US state-affiliated media now complains about his outlet correctly receiving that label.
As an example, NPR dismissed a laptop containing evidence of 459 crimes the Biden family and their business associates committed as “not really news” and a “distraction” days before the 2020 presidential election. NPR continues to turn a blind eye to the Biden family’s crimes.
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Truth was always poison to the left.
NPR is taxpayer funded Liberal Propaganda just like Voice of America. For once Twitter is being truthful.
NPR why so defensive, “independent fact based reporting.”
Like everything connected to a feminist beta-boy liberal activist agenda those words need to be reversed.
US Biden administration strings attached to falsehoods reported as facts to influence a leftist Democrat based audience.
This “independent” radio station is contracted to the current government apparatus to the tune of 70% funding by taxpayers, the other 30 % or so by on-air listeners.
NPR isn’t just a government (read: Democrat) propaganda machine…it is funded by tax dollars. How can even the most rabidly radical Leftist deny that this is indeed “affiliation”? LOL! They have no intellectual honesty.
This is a good sign. If Twitter correctly labels propaganda outlets as such, it’s a huge step toward a more honest internet. In this case, the label is absolutely unassailable for numerous factual reasons. From their government funding to their democrat narrative, there is no plausible case that NPR is not state-affiliated, in addition to being biased toward a single party.
Just no need intellect