National Public Radio receives taxpayer funding for its programs and activities.
And that includes all its leftist political activities.
Now taxpayer-funded NPR launched a new initiative that has conservatives calling them out.
It seems conservatives have been talking about defunding NPR for decades.
But like most things with Congressional conservatives, all they ever really do is talk about it.
Now, it looks like all the talk about defunding NPR should have actually amounted to action.
Because the taxpayer-funded, left-wing talk radio propaganda arm of the Democrat Party is forming its own “disinformation reporting team” just in time for the 2022 Midterms.
And what will this new “disinformation reporting team” be doing?
Well, of that we aren’t quite sure because NPR is literally a disinformation outlet themselves.
That’s why the announcement of its new “disinformation reporting team” was met with quick, brutal mockery on social media, as many correctly pointed out the left-wing network’s long, sordid history of suppressing news and information it decides the public doesn’t need to know.
As Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in Chief of the Federalist, tweeted, “What are you talking about? You’ve been little other than a disinformation team for many years.”
The list of disinformation and news suppressed by NPR is rather long – going back decades.
Sometimes it’s not what is reported, but what is not reported that makes all the difference.
For example in October 2020, NPR refused to report on the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Even though what was on the laptop suggested that then-candidate Joe Biden had lied about his links to his wayward son’s corrupt foreign business deals.
At the time, NPR attempted to justify its lack of reporting on the issue in one of its newsletters.
“[T]he biggest reason you haven’t heard much on NPR about the Post story [on Hunter Biden] is that the assertions don’t amount to much.”
“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. “And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
And even since then, the handful of stories NPR has produced about the ongoing New York Post investigation have been limited to how Facebook and Twitter are restricting distribution of the story or how families of those seeking treatment for addiction are impacted by the portrayal of Hunter Biden’s struggle.
Like other leftist outlets, NPR said the Hunter Biden laptop story was “disinformation” — even though it has proven to be authentic, and now we know the attempts by NPR and others to dismiss it were the only actual “disinformation” — right before an election.
And in 2016, right after the elections, NPR’s ombudsman suggested that NPR limit live interviews with conservatives and focus more on racial content in its programming.
NPR’s new “disinformation reporting team” comes not long after the Biden administration’s failed attempt to set up a “Disinformation Governance Board” – obvious code for an Orwellian Ministry of Truth – at the Department of Homeland Security.
Of course, with NPR getting taxpayer funding, thus being a quasi-government agency its not much of a stretch to see this as an end to set up a government disinformation agency to replace the failed one.
Pants on Fire News will keep you updated on any developments to this ongoing story.