Letters for July 29: GOP Taking on ‘Autocrat Formula’ with Media Attacks

Letters for July 29: GOP taking on ‘autocrat formula’ with media attacks

Press freedom It seems like every coup or government overthrow begins with the plotters taking over the radio and TV stations followed by shutting down the newspapers and arresting journalists. It’s the go-to autocrat formula used to control the narrative, stifle dissent and ensure the public and the larger world are denied access to the truth. With the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, parent organization of PBS and NPR, the…

NPR went from liberal journalists to left-wing crusaders

National Public Radio pocketed $80 million a year in taxpayer money as a hard left-wing media outlet for decades. If Republicans succeed in kicking it off the dole this year, it will be because NPR crossed the line from liberal media to anti-conservative activists. In the name of policing “misinformation,” NPR began pushing for censorship of conservative arguments and facts that harmed Democrats. Its left-wing bias gave way to naked deception, a…