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NPR Hammered by Top Republican – After Huge Mistake, She Plans to Shut Them Down

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is planning to propose new legislative action that would threaten to cut National Public Radio’s (NPR) federal funding if passed, prompted by the news that it suspended an editor who went viral for exposing the outlet’s partisan uniformity in its newsroom…

She is specifically looking to prevent NPR from benefiting from public funds, due to what her office characterized as left-wing bias.

“The mainstream media has become obsessed with doing the Left’s bidding and taking down strong conservatives — and NPR has led the pack,” Blackburn said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “It makes no sense that the American people are forced to fund a propagandist left-wing outlet that refuses to represent the voices of half the country. NPR should not receive our tax dollars’.”
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Carla · 61-69, F
Npr recieves about 1% of it's funding from federal sources.
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@Carla how about no funding for any group whose ceo makes more than POTUS
Carla · 61-69, F
@MarineBob so...oil company executives, farm conglomerate executives...
Do you know how many corporations receive federal funding?
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@Carla it needs to end
Carla · 61-69, F
@MarineBob indeed it does.
Corporate welfare accounts for untold billions.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Carla
But indirectly it receives a lot of money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

So while direct fundind is 1% from the federal government, indirectly from the CPB, which is federally funded, more than 25% of NPRs budget.
@Carla gee... Christine Gregoire's office told me it was between 10%-15% back in 2009 or 2010. Libs can never get their collectivist story straight. So if it's less than 1%, they won't even miss it when the tax fund valve is shut off, right?
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@BizSuitStacy
Right...but it's not really 1%
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