FCC chief Brendan Carrs NPR probe shows way forward for our agitprop media

Cue more establishment fury as new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr turns glowing laser eyes on National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Service and the travesty of state-funded leftist propaganda.He looks to have NPR (at least) 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.” For years, NPR has broadcast “sponsor messages” — commercials by another name — in “recognition” of the corporate cash it rakes in.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. NPR has been reliably left-leaning forever; its very name (and smug, purblind worldview) is synonymous with besweatered suburban liberalism. 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. Indeed, its current head, Katherine Maher, came out as pro-looting during the riots and 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.” Carr’s investigation won’t shut NPR down, but at least it may finally remove the federal seal of approval (and taxpayer subsidy). And so bring the nation one small step closer to a media landscape where reporters and editors focus on (gasp!) digging up and reporting the news, instead of obfuscating and outright lying to advance left-wing narratives.

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