MRC president David Bozell appeared on Newsmax's Finnerty in the 8 pm hour on Tuesday night to discuss Congress rescinding $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR.
Host Rob Finnerty began by pointing out NPR “famously posted that they would not be covering the Hunter Biden story in 2020 because, quote, ‘we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.’ That tweet is still on their account.” He noted we pounced on that statement by NPR "news" executive Terence Samuel at the time, and "Nobody does this stuff better than you guys.”
Bozell laid out the case against continued billions for atrocious left-wing propaganda:
DAVID BOZELL: NPR also in 2021, thought it was newsworthy. Rob, believe it or not, to air what an abortion sounds like on its national airwaves as if that was something that we wanted to pay $1.2 billion to fund. The actual airing of what an abortion sounds like.
They actually put on their airwaves that The Communist Manifesto...is a stirring read, a stirring refuge for anyone who feels wronged by the free-market process. This is the United States national public airwaves, and we're paying for them to compliment The Communist Manifesto.
Then Bozell listed all of our recent MRC numbers on the leftist tilt:
- On PBS's Washington Week with The Atlantic, the moderator and the panelists were 93 percent negative about Trump and the Republicans, and all the journalist guests hailed from the left end of the political spectrum – except for one (The Dispatch) that sounded as liberal as the rest.
- On NPR's Fresh Air, all the journalist guests came from the left: 36 to zero.
- On PBS News Hour, labeling of "far right" and "far left" terms had a 42-to-1 disparity (127 to 3).
It's just left wing propaganda from start to finish," he concluded. "And even at this critical moment for them, with their $1.2 billion at stake, they can't seem to get the memo."
Finnerty made a great point about who is NOT subsidized: "You know what's remarkable? I think Newsmax -- I don't want to speak on behalf of my bosses -- but I think we'd be thrilled if the government gave us $500 million annually. They certainly don't. We have to compete in the marketplace, just like other news organizations, excluding PBS and NPR."
Bozell concluded with our reporting on how Texas Public Radio did not live up to their boasts of how they are crucial in their communities with emergency alerts:
BOZELL: Not only [has NPR] been lobbying Congress pretty hard, they actually put out an APB on their social media feeds in Texas -- in Texas, the Texas Public Broadcasting System to lobby their member of Congress while the Kerrville floods were unfolding. They did not -- there is very limited evidence that they actually broke into the local programing. Kerrville Police Department confirmed to us that they were never invited on the local NPR station to talk about the floods. They went on every other private station in Kerr County. Never once did they NPR local affiliate -- meanwhile, on their social media feeds, they were lobbying Congress for $1.2 billion while the floods were unfolding. It's criminal."
