The Media Research Center launched its "Defund PBS & NPR" campaign Tuesday with a digital mobile billboard driven on roads around the Capitol and House and Senate office buildings calling for defunding. The van will be on the roads in Washington and in Virginia through Thursday.
The mobile billboards tout our new coalition website DefundPBSNPR.org. Backers can sign our petition and follow our new X account as well. As the website proclaims:
Taxpayers should never be forced to subsidize media companies in America. The arguments made 60 years ago to justify the creation of federally funded news outlets have become obsolete, just as NPR and PBS have revealed themselves to be nothing more than mouthpieces for a radical agenda. Half a century ago, consumers had very few options on TV and radio. There are thousands of options today. The partisan bias reflected in NPR and PBS "news" coverage is likewise completely indefensible. Their time is over. The time to protect taxpayers is now.
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner reported on the campaign, as Elon Musk has suggested that "public" broadcasting is wasteful federal spending. The DOGE squad is already under assault from PBS and NPR in expectation that Musk is soon coming to expose them.
“For decades, conservatives have been forced to send our tax dollars to Washington so that PBS and NPR can smear us as horrible bigots and racists who want to starve children,” I told Bedard. “Now is the time for Republicans to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end this abuse. Let George Soros and Rob Reiner and the like fund PBS and NPR. If the government were shoveling money to Fox News, you know the left would say it was unfair to them. But for them, it’s never unfair to take government money to push their talking points.”
I was also thrilled to discuss the Defund PBS & NPR campaign on Tuesday morning with Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock on "O'Connor & Co." on WMAL-FM. The audio is here.
