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Builders of the Mountain Valley Pipeline says they’ve completed most of the 304-mile project, but Wild Virginia’s David Sligh says the hardest part has yet to begin. “They have not crossed hundreds of streams, and they have not crossed the national forest and some other areas that are particularly difficult for them to do construction, and those areas are going to be some of the most difficult they have,” he explains. A coalition of environmental groups will again challenge a permit to build through three and a half miles of the Jefferson National Forest. Late last week the forest service...

PBS has joined NPR in quitting Elon Musk’s Twitter after the social media network labelled both organizations as “government-backed media.” Bloomberg reports that PBS has decided to stop using Twitter after the social media platform referred to both it and NPR as “government-backed media.” “PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,” said PBS spokesman Jason Phelps in an email. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”

Elon Musk has called to 'defund' the National Public Radio (NPR) after it quit Twitter over spat with CEO, who labeled the outlet 'government-funded media' and accused it of not being 'editorially independent.' NPR's 52 Twitter accounts went silent on Wednesday after the social platform added the black label tag of 'state-affiliated media' to the brand's official account last week - a tag that is often only seen associated with propaganda outlets in Russia and China. It has since been changed to 'government-funded media.' The BBC and PBS have also been given the same tag.

National Public Radio was founded in the 1960s and has been taking public money for its entire existence. But today the organization announced it was quitting Twitter because it’s tweets were being labeled “government-funded media.”NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter’s decision to first label the network “state-affiliated media,” the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio...

So .. "national public radio" a news organization started by and funded by the state, (aka state funded radio) claims they are false accused of being what they are, as written on their own platform. This is bias inception. Also, this is about the 100th time this garbage has been posted. Please don't click that link, please don't read any further. Just blow raspberries at me. Thank you for time, DISMISSED

As Townhall reported last week, National Public Radio was labeled as "state-affiliated media" by Twitter, a classification that was later changed to "government-funded media." We noted that NPR, in addition to corporate and individual donors, emphasizes the importance of its taxpayer-derived revenue via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, meaning Twitter's label is accurate. Well, this week, NPR took action that suggests again it is little more than a partisan war room for Democrats that is uninterested in communicating news and accurate information to Americans. In a story posted Wednesday morning, NPR announced that it "will no longer post fresh content...

Twitter has removed the “US state-affiliated media” label from National Public Radio’s official account and has instead replaced it with “Government Funded Media.” The change was made after the social media site was widely criticized for giving NPR the designation. Defenders of NPR — who were angry over comparisons to other state-run outlets such as Russia Today and China’s Xinhua News Agency — noted last week that while the station does take some funding from the government, it has full editorial independence. ... Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted last Wednesday that NPR met the site’s definition of “state-affiliated media” as...

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) on Wednesday announced the decision to quit Twitter after being transparently labeled “state-affiliated media.” NPR, whose budget is subsidized nearly 11 percent by taxpayer funds, declared it will step away from the social media platform to protect journalism. NPR’s media personalities will (so far) remain with personal accounts. “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence,” NPR’s CEO John Lansing said in a statement. When questioned if NPR would ever return to the platform, Lansing cast doubt on...

The taxpayer-funded leftists at National Public Radio flung proverbial sewage at critics who dared raise Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s financial ties to billionaire George Soros. NPR’s Apr. 6 edition of All Things Considered decried “conservative politicians” who made Soros a “bogeyman” in Bragg’s highly politicized prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The outlet railed at critics like Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). NPR Host Mary Louise Kelly brought on guest and liberal Soros biographer Emily Tamkin who downplayed the fact that Soros gave $1 million to the anti-police Color of Change PAC...

The credentialed class is ripe for a fall, and nowhere is this more evident than in the media. In a move that is every bit as hilarious as it is accurate, Twitter on April 4 labeled the official NPR account as “US state-affiliated media.” NPR staffers and ideological allies were quick to vent their anger over the apt description. Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk was unfazed. In an April 5 tweet, he highlighted the company’s definition of state-affiliated media as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson shreds 'state-sponsored media' NPR on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

National Public Radio (NPR) has been designated as "U.S. state-affiliated media" by Twitter as the platform would designate media from Russia and China. The social platform uses such labels to describe alleged state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets like Russian news agencies and Chinese news agencies. "NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable, said John Lansing, CEO of the media company, in a statement calling NPR an "independent, fact-based journalism" outlet. "It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy," he added. Elon...

National Public Radio has been labeled as "U.S. state-affiliated media" on Twitter, marking the public radio outlet's account with the same icon placed on outlets like Russia's state-owned news agency TASS or China's New China News Agency, the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China The label has only been applied to NPR's primary Twitter account and is not currently on accounts like NPR Politics or NPR Health. Twitter, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has long labeled state-owned media companies. According to the site, the labels "provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official...

Elon Musk’s Twitter finally confirmed what the Media Research Center has been saying for years: National Public Radio is nothing but state propaganda. Twitter slapped a “state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account. Musk responded to conservative personality Benny Johnson celebrating that Twitter tore off NPR’s fake veneer of objective journalism. “Seems accurate,” Musk tweeted. MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider took a blowtorch to NPR following the news. “NPR is not just state media. It is a mouthpiece of the Deep State,” he said. “It has worked to deceive American taxpayers about its real role, but it’s so...

NPR employees accused the network’s CEO of racism during a virtual all-staff presentation last week detailing financial metrics and diversity level updates following the organization slashing approximately 10% of its workforce. NPR officials laid off 84 employees last week and halted production on four seasonal podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, and Rough Translation. The Wall Street Journal reported network officials would cut another 13 employees from the digital team. Following the exodus from ex-staffers, Lansing and other executives reportedly tuned into a Zoom meeting to address the news department and the programming team, taking questions from employees that...

National Public Radio issued a correction to their tweet that proclaimed there is "limited scientific evidence of physical advantage" trans male athletes have over female athletes after the international governing body for track and field banned trans athletes. The World Athletics Council said the ban is in place after the organization conducted their own research that showed biological males had an advantage over females, though pro-LGBT+ groups claim their research was flawed. NPR's original tweet was shared widely on Twitter, with many users posting links to studies showing what the World Athletics Council found to be accurate. The tweet had...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed that National Public Radio (NPR) is over-hyping anti-transgender violence to encourage the trans community to arm themselves with military-grade weapons…

On Thursday, NPR disclosed that they were stopping production on several podcasts as part of a larger series of cutbacks the nonprofit news organization has been forced to make as they confront a decline in revenue projected at $30 million.According to the Washington Post, this week "the Washington-based audio and digital-news organization began laying off about 100 employees, or 10 percent of its staff."The employee layoffs mark one the most significant staff reductions in the company's 53 years of operation.The company's most popular shows, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, remain in production and will continue to broadcast on public-radio...

National Public Radio was the latest media organization to implement mass layoffs, leading to the cancelation of multiple programs.NPR itself confirmed Thursday that it had cut 10% of its workforce on Thursday, impacting roughly 100 employees, adding that it tends to roll back the workforce from 1,200 to an estimated 1,050 employees, the "largest reduction in staff since the 2008 recession.""We literally are fighting to secure the future of NPR at this very moment by restructuring our cost structure. It's that important. It's existential," NPR chief executive John Lansing told NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik.

In response to a World Athletics Council decision to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s track and field competitions, NPR made the patently absurd claim that there is ‘limited scientific evidence’ of a physical advantage for trans women (men) over women athletes. ‘Limited scientific evidence’? The folks at NPR have self-lobotomized in service to the wokesters. We explicitly separate men’s and women’s sports because men have a physical advantage over women. The international governing body for track and field will ban trans women athletes from elite women's competitions, citing a priority for fairness over inclusion despite limited scientific evidence...