In a congressional subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher admitted the outfit’s blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake, acknowledged that NPR’s alleged 87-to-zero ratio of Democrats to Republicans in editorial positions is a “concern,” and stumbled through a defense of her publicly expressed views like “America is addicted to white supremacy” and calling the First Amendment “the number one challenge” to suppressing information.
As Republican members of Congress pointed out, one of NPR’s most infamous displays of corruption was its refusal to cover the Biden family scandal sourced to Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel said in a statement explaining the blackout.
Wednesday’s hearing provided more than enough evidence that the outfit’s generous federal subsidies should be next on DOGE’s chopping block. But in case the Trump administration needs a few more reasons, here are 10 other times NPR proved its propaganda doesn’t deserve another taxpayer dime.
1. SCOTUS Maskgate
In January 2022, NPR’s Nina Totenberg wrote a fake story accusing Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch of forcing his colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor into telework because he refused to wear a mask “despite [her] COVID worries.” […]
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