President Trump signed an Executive Order that officially defunds National Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service. Both NPR and PBS received tens of millions of dollars in federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
“Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options,” the president wrote in the Executive Order. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”
In short, American taxpayers will no longer be forced to pay for anti-American propaganda.
“At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage,” Trump added. “No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize.”
The president explained that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting failed to ensure that both organizations covered the news in a fair and balanced and accurate manner.
Here’s a brief list of some of the documented bias uncovered at PBS and NPR:
- An NPR editor found that registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in the newsroom’s editorial positions.
- NPR’s President and CEO admitted that she regards “truth” as a harmful “distraction” from NPR’s objectives.
- To illustrate its partisan capture, NPR management asked its editors to avoid the term “biological sex” when discussing transgender issues.
- NPR has run stories defending looting and suggesting that crime fears are racist and has described its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices as “inseparable” from its content.
- NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, calling it a waste of time and a distraction, despite that it was highly relevant to the presidential election.
- NPR repeatedly insisted COVID-19 did not originate in a lab and refused to explore the theory.
- The FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy have all since deemed the lab-leak theory the likely cause.
- NPR ran a Valentine’s Day feature around “queer animals,” in which it suggested the make-believe clownfish in “Finding Nemo” would’ve been better off as a female, that “banana slugs are hermaphrodites,” and that “some deer are nonbinary.”
- Research shows that “congressional Republicans faced 85% negative coverage, compared to 54% positive coverage of congressional Democrats,” on PBS’s flagship news program.
- Over a six-month period, PBS News Hour used versions of the term “far-right” 162 times, but “far-left” only 6 times.
- A PBS station featured drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess on a program meant for kids ages 3-8.
- PBS produced a movie titled “Real Boy” which celebrates a transgender teen’s transition.
- PBS show Sesame Street partnered with CNN for a town hall aimed presenting children with a one-sided narrative to “address racism” amid the Black Lives Matter riots.
- PBS’s coverage of the 2024 Republican National Convention was 72% negative, while its coverage of the 2024 Democratic National Convention was 88% positive.
- No media outlet has a Constitutional right to taxpayer subsidized operations, and it’s highly inappropriate for taxpayers to be forced to subsidize biased, partisan content.
“Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens,” the president said.
If NPR and PBS want to broadcast far-left propaganda they’re going to have to do it on their dime. And if they can’t afford to pay their electricity bill, might I recommend they stop giving away so many tote bags and umbrellas.
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