NPR 'So Clearly Does Not Want To Reflect The Diverse Views Of All Americans': Cathy McMorris Rodgers

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  • During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) questioned witnesses about political bias at NPR, and Congressional oversight of the outlet.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 192

  • @cactus9838
    @cactus9838 11 днів тому +103

    DEFUND NPR

  • @gooser__43
    @gooser__43 11 днів тому +73

    Defund NPR and PBS!

  • @Jeanne90275
    @Jeanne90275 11 днів тому +75

    NPR is about as balanced as MSNBC. Stopped listening years ago.

  • @solvingpolitics3172
    @solvingpolitics3172 11 днів тому +99

    NPR = Nothing but Progressive Rhetoric

  • @johnmontoya8160
    @johnmontoya8160 11 днів тому +46

    Don't forget the NPR CEO didn't show up at this hearing.

    • @dwreal1717
      @dwreal1717 11 днів тому

      It’s a Spook whose power cannot be checked

  • @ThePengo
    @ThePengo 11 днів тому +72

    No more funding for them. Period

  • @noneyabizz8337
    @noneyabizz8337 11 днів тому +74

    They can be biased, just not on the public's dime.

    • @stevetaylor8298
      @stevetaylor8298 11 днів тому +5

      No, don't fall for that, they should not be biased, unless they declare their bias, change their name, be truthful and have no public funding. They should NOT be allowed to deceive.

    • @williammcdowell2618
      @williammcdowell2618 10 днів тому

      Perfect

    • @Khahlesstheyoutubeguy
      @Khahlesstheyoutubeguy 9 днів тому

      is being pro USA being biased?

    • @williammcdowell2618
      @williammcdowell2618 9 днів тому

      No way​@@Khahlesstheyoutubeguy

  • @guadacoma
    @guadacoma 11 днів тому +27

    The government shouldn’t give a single penny to any news agency EVER.

    • @chokkan7
      @chokkan7 10 днів тому

      As a taxpayer, I'm not averse to public funding for a news agency, but it should be stipulated that said agency be somewhat balanced in its coverage...

  • @user-vj1lp2kh7e
    @user-vj1lp2kh7e 11 днів тому +18

    I listened to NPR for 20 years until George Floyd when they went 'all victims, all the time'.I used to even give money during the pledge drives. No more. I stopped listening several years ago.

  • @farcenter
    @farcenter 10 днів тому +5

    He's so right. I used to listen every day. Now I can't even stand a minute of it.

  • @carlrichards5207
    @carlrichards5207 11 днів тому +30

    Npr has got to go. No more tax dollars.

  • @ron4255
    @ron4255 11 днів тому +31

    Their new ceo is a joke. All over the place talking about how the truth is just a distraction and how the 1st amendment is terrible for her bs views.

  • @chuckb9867
    @chuckb9867 11 днів тому +35

    This is like CNN only publicly funded by tax dollars.What a the embarrassment rate❤❤❤

  • @threadripper979
    @threadripper979 11 днів тому +29

    Defund NPR

  • @shirlynmakar4129
    @shirlynmakar4129 11 днів тому +17

    I listen to NPR…. And it does not serve my views at all. I’m not for paying one dime to them of tax money.

  • @TGLogicFails
    @TGLogicFails 11 днів тому +17

    You think NPR is bad, listen to MN Public Radio! It's a liberal word salad, one after another. It's so bad that I couldn't even listen to it back when I was voting blue and considered myself a liberal.

    • @hsmd4533
      @hsmd4533 11 днів тому +2

      I used to listen to and support MPR when Katherine Lanpher was on, but that was ages ago and I’d never listen to it now, it’s far too biased.

    • @williammcdowell2618
      @williammcdowell2618 10 днів тому

      I would rather listen to wall paper drying

  • @jeffreywillis4258
    @jeffreywillis4258 11 днів тому +23

    This has been the works for 20yrs minimum. From 1980 to 2002 all i listened to was NPR in the car. Somewhere around 2003 or so they took a gigantic turn to the left, nothing but left-wing commentary and consternation. It became so stupid and unhinged I had to finally stop listening as it was making my morning commute stressful. I just chalked it up to yet another institution bought by liberal elites.

    • @marksolum1794
      @marksolum1794 11 днів тому +2

      Media that used to be neutral or just slightly left of center really reacted to the creation of FoxNews in 1996 and went to the extreme left. NPR does interview quite often a GOP congressman or GOP official for 5 min between 5 and 5:30 AM (MT) but that is about it.

    • @jeffreywillis4258
      @jeffreywillis4258 11 днів тому

      @@marksolum1794
      Seems strange to say this now, but as i recall, the left had a serious problem with our response to 9/11. Their position back then was we should not get involved in a war and we were not the world police and NPR made this more than clear. Juxtapose that with today's liberal push to finance wars across the globe and American politics seems to have turned on it's head. I haven't listened to NPR in over 20yrs. but I'll bet they are singing a different tune today. After all, a Democrat is in power.

  • @jasonwebster8027
    @jasonwebster8027 10 днів тому +3

    NPR is literally state media that only covers one side of the aisle.

  • @bobconnor1210
    @bobconnor1210 10 днів тому +4

    Npr should be getting Zero tax dollars. This is Not because of any political bent at all but simply because it is not a proper role of our government to be supporting it at any level of funding whatsoever. That said, I will recall a time when PBS, also publicly funded, gave us some very objective, straight and intelligent news reporting, back in the day, with the likes of The McNeil/Lehrer Report.

  • @tanamtl
    @tanamtl 11 днів тому +8

    NPR should be defunded yesterday 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

  • @pAuL-nb2ud
    @pAuL-nb2ud 11 днів тому +15

    I used to listen to NPR when i was in college in 2004 , but now when i turn it on ... mmm it doesn't feel the same and i can't listen to it anymore , it's not balanced at all

  • @cantthinkofone77
    @cantthinkofone77 11 днів тому +7

    Not 1 penny more....

  • @stevestancill4928
    @stevestancill4928 9 днів тому +1

    NPR got pissed when Mitt said he would cut funding if elected.

  • @baaamakingbaaaa
    @baaamakingbaaaa 11 днів тому +3

    NPR has become Babylon Bee's competitor, but only one of them is satire on purpose.

  • @vdcg2010
    @vdcg2010 11 днів тому +7

    Defund now along with PBS!!!

  • @parkrthington1902
    @parkrthington1902 11 днів тому +6

    STATE FINANCED, Media and you expected what from it people?😮

  • @JohnSmith-op7ls
    @JohnSmith-op7ls 11 днів тому +2

    Stop using any tax money to fund propaganda against the people who provide that tax money.

  • @stevenwiederholt7000
    @stevenwiederholt7000 11 днів тому +4

    "NPR 'So Clearly Does Not Want To Reflect The Diverse Views Of All Americans'"In other breaking news Fire is Hot an water is Very moist.

  • @badbobcat5830
    @badbobcat5830 11 днів тому +2

    Tried to listen one day and a black woman claimed that only white women could be a "Karen".

  • @mattdaugherty7865
    @mattdaugherty7865 11 днів тому +2

    Car Talk & PHC were the only programs worth listening to back in the day!

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому +4

    Bias

  • @JamieJohnson-on2jz
    @JamieJohnson-on2jz 10 днів тому +2

    I used to tune in sometimes in 2018, and by this point I never do. I was much more liberal in 2018 and I loved that we were subsidizing public radio and they had segments that were not just news but had popular culture elements... But then over the years I started to realize all their pop culture elements were lesbian indie artists and African American small businesses and authors calling to defund the military because of social justice issues. I stopped listening because it wasn't even just that their take on the news is biased, but that every single person they promote is a picture-perfect progressive. And you can have people come on and criticize the government, sure, absolutely, that should be a thing we are able to do and at times if necessary, encourage people to do - have segments about how to write a letter to your congressmen, and have that message play after every news segment, something broad and instructional like government funded radio is supposed to be? But it's gotten out of hand. If you want to represent diversity, equity, and inclusion, you have to have a quota for Republican representation in all branches now. Not just Asian-Americans, African Americans, LGB Americans, Trans Americans, and protesters. You must include a number of Republicans reflecting the percentage of Americans to stay relevant, honest, and unbiased.

  • @CSUnger
    @CSUnger 11 днів тому +1

    Still subsidized after all these years.

  • @michaelrains64295
    @michaelrains64295 10 днів тому +1

    Govt should never be permitted to fund media. Never.

  • @OCEANSIDEGANGBUSTER
    @OCEANSIDEGANGBUSTER 10 днів тому +1

    How do they get federal funding?

  • @cwwcww7465
    @cwwcww7465 11 днів тому +12

    Cut their funding..........

  • @user-dk4ok4od9g
    @user-dk4ok4od9g 10 днів тому

    NPR went completely off the rails after Diane Rehm retired.

  • @riverspirit7
    @riverspirit7 11 днів тому +1

    Take away nprs tax status too when you defund them..also tax any foreign revenue to the new private npr at 90%

  • @tonicoulter77
    @tonicoulter77 5 днів тому

    NO MONEY FROM GOVERNMENT!!!

  • @AmericanBadger
    @AmericanBadger 11 днів тому +5

    This witness nailed it!

  • @Rah2842
    @Rah2842 11 днів тому +5

    NPR PPH all speak out against Their political Opponents
    SO--
    WHY is the CHURCH silent when it comes to calling out evil democrats from the Pulpit???

  • @1earlebird1
    @1earlebird1 10 днів тому

    For years I thoroughly enjoyed NPR. I almost never listen now as they are completely predictable.

  • @robertmize327
    @robertmize327 8 днів тому

    I wish people would learn to read aloud before they do it in public.

  • @klars3207
    @klars3207 10 днів тому

    Let them compete in the market.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому +1

    I've been listening to these people for a lot of years I know every one of them

    • @hsmd4533
      @hsmd4533 11 днів тому +1

      It’s brave of you to admit your problem.
      Help is available.
      You can change.
      Never give up trying to free yourself.

  • @StrikeTheRoot
    @StrikeTheRoot 10 днів тому

    Defund Congress along with defunding NPR.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    There you go

  • @justinbailey6515
    @justinbailey6515 11 днів тому

    A fun game is to try to go a minute listening to npr without them mentioning race or gender.

  • @josephpadula2283
    @josephpadula2283 11 днів тому +1

    She needs reading lessons .
    The guy Copped to it , meaning admitted to it , not coped .

    • @hsmd4533
      @hsmd4533 11 днів тому

      Yeah that was cringy.

  • @BadBoyBobby85
    @BadBoyBobby85 10 днів тому

    Theyre literally old weather underground members!

  • @user-xk4vt9ye8j
    @user-xk4vt9ye8j 10 днів тому

    The bias is obvious. I once listened to a NPR report and decided to count the number of times they referred to Trump in a negative way. I gave up around 113.

  • @sylviaoleksy4908
    @sylviaoleksy4908 10 днів тому

    Defund the npr

  • @MrHeretic187
    @MrHeretic187 9 днів тому

    My wifes boyfriend beats me if he catches me listening to NPR.

  • @Tj75822
    @Tj75822 9 днів тому

    Stop accepting the intolerance of NPR.

  • @davidcarpenter8741
    @davidcarpenter8741 10 днів тому

    If it was only one percent, why take it at all then?

  • @Xantipa-hj9cu
    @Xantipa-hj9cu 11 днів тому +1

    NPR used to have few DJs who were able to put together decent sets off quality music. At least sometimes. they don’t even have that anymore. It’s as bad as the rest of it.
    I never belong to any political party, so I enjoy listening to all different points of view, but NPR is useless

  • @larryphelps6607
    @larryphelps6607 11 днів тому

    I have been saying this for years. if the govt. is going to fund a liberal voice, there must be equal funds to voice a conservative voice.
    My liberal friends disagree, which gives more credence to my opinion.

  • @oclough
    @oclough 10 днів тому

    Neither does Forbes

  • @Brandon-iy4fl
    @Brandon-iy4fl 11 днів тому

    Why would NPR not Want To Reflect The Diverse Views Of All Americans?

  • @hoonhwang4778
    @hoonhwang4778 9 днів тому

    My radio is pegged on NPR. Rest of others r rubbish.

  • @JoeJoe-go4vd
    @JoeJoe-go4vd 10 днів тому

    But no one complaining about the government funding for left leaning VOA?

  • @jameshigginbottom3314
    @jameshigginbottom3314 11 днів тому

    I donate every year...1 wooden nickel.

  • @str8up598
    @str8up598 11 днів тому

    Cut the funding..... Let the chips fall where whey will.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    Are you implying that I'm one-sided political party because ma'am I am completely non-biased

  • @richardhendrickson386
    @richardhendrickson386 10 днів тому

    These harrings are ridiculous take their funding away this is b*******

  • @rodney8763
    @rodney8763 11 днів тому

    DAMN. I am pretty sure that I could read that (without knowing what I was reading) a whole lot better than this woman. And to think she was trying to introduce some kind of statement. Did she even read it before the hearing or simply was handed the copy by her staff and blew it? Isn't she from the state of Washington?

  • @thomaskaiakapu2672
    @thomaskaiakapu2672 11 днів тому

    Trump would gladly defund both NPR and PBS.

  • @ArizonaPoet
    @ArizonaPoet 11 днів тому +1

    More rightly NGR, National Government Radio, the Woke Station.

  • @bretwebber7484
    @bretwebber7484 10 днів тому

    Wazzup 😮

  • @charlesmrader
    @charlesmrader 10 днів тому +1

    I don't mind a liberal (or conservative) bias, but I do very much mind when this leads to broadcasting misinformation, and worse, to a reluctance to correct it.
    I have spent a lot of time over the last thirty years making myself well informed about genetic engineering in agriculture. I can give many examples of NPR misinforming its listeners. I'll give just two examples from a much longer list.
    The first example may just barely survive the test of being only bias, not falsehood. There was a story about a US state that had tried to pass a law to protect people who invade a farm field to tear out GMO crops from legal liability for damage, etc. Let's assume that such a state exists so that the statement is true. But when this was broadcast, there had already been laws actually passed in something like a dozen states, which laws made it very clear that such actions WERE criminal. This fact being omitted from the NPR story very clearly gave listeners the wrong idea.
    My second example is unambiguously clear. Around 2006, the World Trade Organization was considering a case brought by the United States against the European Union, about two years before, which had imposed a moratorium on its own regulatory agencies against approving any new genetically modified crops, even if that regulatory body had found no scientific evidence that the GMO crop could cause a problem. The WTO issued its ruling, that the EU was violating WTO rules by that moratorium. NPR carried this story, with a byline to a named reporter, saying the the WTO had ruled that the EU was not allowed to label food as containing GMO ingredients. That was completely false.
    I contacted the local NPR station (in Boston) to explain that the story was wrong, and providing a copy of the WTO decision. It was six hundred pages long, but it included a short executive summary which made it instantly clear that the NPR story was wrong. The gentleman I spoke to said that there was nothing they could do because the program they had broadcast came from an affiliated news source, Marketplace. I suggested that they could still broadcast a correction. They were not willing to do that. So I asked how we could contact Marketplace, and I got the name of its news manager.
    So I called him and explained the error, but he said that he trusted his reporter. Since I knew the name of the reporter, I could easily find out where she lived, Cambridge Massachusetts, a local call for me. So I called her. She insisted that she had not written anything like that. She clearly knew that it was wrong, and she had submitted a story to that station about the WTO decision. But the broadcast I had heard was still available on the web, and I suggested that she listen to it. She did. She then called me back and said that she would email me a printed copy of the story she had written. And she was correct. The story she had written was 100% accurate and contained no such false claim about the WTO banning GMO labels. Someone at Marketplace had changed the story, leaving her byline intact.
    I asked the reporter if she would contact the Marketplace news manager to make a complaint about this. She said to me that she did not want to do that because she didn't want to damage her professional relationship with the news manager.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    Specifically always seems to Target a man everytime

  • @NorthGeorgiaMountains
    @NorthGeorgiaMountains 11 днів тому

    It’s absolutely insane that in today’s digital information world that my tax dollars are being spent on some little propaganda outlet. #DefundNPR

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    FCC has rules already

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    No excuse for ignorance of the law there you go you're admitting the influential process

  • @jimmy3Dabstract
    @jimmy3Dabstract 10 днів тому

    This is a sad situation. NPR had some good shows. However, every time you listen now it’s all Trump, Trump, Trump.

  • @Fabioman3
    @Fabioman3 9 днів тому

    Yes, there should have been 2 or 3 Republicans so Democrats could object to the validity of this story even more. 🤣

  • @dlamfreeman4922
    @dlamfreeman4922 11 днів тому

    I love the classical music! I disagree with your persuasive rhetoric. I would love to hear unbiased reporting I would love to hear what both sides are pushing. I would love to see an end to the divisiveness.

  • @dcarr-kr7hk
    @dcarr-kr7hk 11 днів тому +4

    I listened to them years ago and they were far less political.
    No more...
    I haven't listen to the political junk they put out for years.
    They simply made it too obvious that they were not diverse in their thinking.

    • @Tj75822
      @Tj75822 9 днів тому

      NPR is intolerant when it comes to diversity of thought.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    Zeros are planes in Japan

  • @theBoss3121
    @theBoss3121 11 днів тому

    Im a republican and ive been listed to NPR for 13 years. Also Alex Jones

    • @Tj75822
      @Tj75822 9 днів тому

      And do you feel inspired to support tax dollar funding?

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    You think you're calling somebody Japan or

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    Now it just seems It's about the both of you

  • @user-zg1wz8fh8f
    @user-zg1wz8fh8f 11 днів тому

    Stop funding public art as well

    • @LocalCoot
      @LocalCoot 11 днів тому

      Especially rainbow crosswalks.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    The simple comments from a man being right she's going to irritate her you ever seen the movie Matilda

  • @joeparks5701
    @joeparks5701 10 днів тому

    Have you listened they is one-sided as hell

  • @benjiedrollinger990
    @benjiedrollinger990 10 днів тому

    I listen to NPR not for their liberal viewpoint though.

    • @Tj75822
      @Tj75822 9 днів тому +1

      Devoid of facts, for sure.

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    Cute

  • @johncotter2008
    @johncotter2008 10 днів тому +1

    National Propaganda Radio (NPR)

  • @barrybarbella817
    @barrybarbella817 11 днів тому

    I guess npr needs more conspiracy theories and less fact checking.

  • @waynelucier1678
    @waynelucier1678 10 днів тому

    This is second grade level reading

  • @mrfortygrit
    @mrfortygrit 11 днів тому +4

    NPR is Trash

  • @williegilligan2661
    @williegilligan2661 11 днів тому +1

    NPR is Raskins God, I imagine he prays to it every night. And he prays for a better toupee too. 🤣

  • @user-rh8fl8qz2z
    @user-rh8fl8qz2z 11 днів тому +1

    National PROPAGANDA Radio! I no longer tune in to npr. INDOCTRINATION BS.

  • @Dude-rs4wx
    @Dude-rs4wx 10 днів тому

    Defund, Divest, Defund divest defund divest defund divest defund divest.

  • @EdwardGraveline
    @EdwardGraveline 11 днів тому +2

    NPR got it's talking points from Adam Schiff

  • @matt4887
    @matt4887 10 днів тому

    Neo Progressive Radio

  • @concretedragon3113
    @concretedragon3113 10 днів тому +1

    National Propaganda Radio

  • @josephhoffman7760
    @josephhoffman7760 11 днів тому

    You're getting selfish and personal off the subject

  • @Wizardof
    @Wizardof 10 днів тому

    Someone good at Bias is Forbes!

  • @Tj75822
    @Tj75822 9 днів тому

    NSPR. National Socialist Propaganda Radio