After more than 35 years of fighting to end taxpayer funding for the left-wing mouthpieces known as National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, the Media Research Center celebrated just that - the Republican-controlled Congress clawing back a whopping $1 billion in tax dollars previously earmarked for the (now formerly) government-subsidized propaganda machines.
"For decades, MRC has proven that PBS and NPR have abandoned journalistic objectivity, using taxpayer dollars to push far‑left agendas," MRC President David Bozell wrote in a statement on X. "Now, at long last, the funding streams are being turned off. The American people will finally stop paying for liberal media propaganda."
For decades, MRC has proven that PBS and NPR have abandoned journalistic objectivity, using taxpayer dollars to push far‑left agendas. Now, at long last, the funding streams are being turned off. The American people will finally stop paying for liberal media propaganda. pic.twitter.com/qDwQJyckQi
— David Bozell 🇺🇸 (@DavidBozell) July 18, 2025
Naturally, fellow leftist rags bemoaned the loss of hundreds of millions' worth of public funding for NPR and PBS, with the Washington Post whining that defunding Sesame Street, which has recently pushed leftist agenda items like race-based finger-wagging and lessons on gender-bending for preschoolers, guarantees that the next generation of American children will grow up with oatmeal for brains.
"With PBS funding cut, will the next generation be raised by ‘Skibidi Toilet’?" WaPo lamented in one handwringing article.
With any luck, WaPo, they'll be raised by their parents, who hopefully won't encourage them to question their own anatomy before they're out of diapers.
And it only took 35 years of the MRC documenting, exposing, and calling out NPR and PBS for their anti-American, leftwing bias to pave the way.
I'd say that's the very definition of time well spent.
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