The FCC chair is turning his eyes to NPR’s shady commercial-running practices.
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesHe looks to have NPR dead-to-rights with a probe of the taxpayer-backed agitprop shop’s flaunting of federal rules that forbid public broadcasters from “airing commercials or other promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities.”
That threatens not just its direct federal funding, but the larger amount it collects from “member stations” — and perhaps even the $100 million from corporate sponsors, who can get their products touted under the NPR banner. But as with most other media institutions, Trump’s 2016 victory and the 2020 Floyd riots sent NPR into overdrive, launching it on an ideological crusade as a vanguard regime propagandist on Russiagate, trans extremism, DEI nonsense and all other woke pieties. has condoned censorship of any journo who dares to disagree with her lefty politics; she’s even called the First Amendment a “number one challenge” in fighting “disinformation.
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