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Case in Point: All Taxpayer Dollars Considered: National Peoples Radio

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Politics, News

4.6632 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Guest is Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former journalist, to discuss the cut off of funding to NPR and PBS, and the bias of its news coverage. Classic Movie Review of “Absence of Malice” (1981), a film about unethical reporters and government lawyers.

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.7

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

0:08.1

Welcome to Case and Point, and today's episode is called All Taxpayer Dollars considered National People's Radio.

0:18.8

Now, you would think that the sky is falling and that there will be a complete news blackout

0:24.0

across the nation because Congress recently approved a $1.1 billion rescission of money that had

0:31.6

gone to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

0:34.9

CPB helps fund NPR and PBS.

0:38.8

You know,

0:39.0

what is astonishing to me about these hysterical claims

0:41.8

is that the number of newspapers,

0:44.8

news and opinion websites,

0:46.4

news channels,

0:47.4

both national and local,

0:49.4

and commercial local radio stations,

0:51.8

there are so many of them,

0:53.0

I couldn't even begin to count them all up.

0:56.0

Additionally, it turns out, although you wouldn't know this, from reading any of the reports

1:02.0

in places like The New York Times about it, that I was actually, again, astonished.

1:06.0

NPR and PBS are so good at soliciting donations that they only get a tiny percentage of their money from federal

1:14.8

taxpayer dollars. They are actually sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars of cash and assets.

1:23.5

You wouldn't know that again, like I said, from the panic-stricken articles in places like the Washington Post and New York Times.

1:30.8

Now, my guest today to talk about this is a veteran of the news business, one of my favorite colleagues at the Heritage Foundation, Mike Gonzalez, who, I think you told me I now have to refer to you as the Honorable Mike Gonzalez, right?

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