New York Times Reporter Calls Defunding of Public Media an 'Attack' on Free Press
http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/07/17/lulu-navarro-nyt-defunding-radio-an-attack-on-free-press-n2415791
"Freedom of the press" is first, foremost, and all about the press being free from government control, you pathetic nitwit. Having a press corps whose existence is dependent on funding from the government is the exact opposite of what you are childishly bemoaning.
The First Amendment is very clear on the concept of freedom of the press, but what it doesn't say is that freedom of the press is contingent on taxpayer dollars.
Yet the Left seems to think press freedom means they can grift off taxpayers, and cutting that funding is an 'attack' on the media.
Lulu NYT (@LuluGNavarro) ~ Another vote in the dead of night: this time gutting public media. It’s another attack on freedom of the press in this country.
Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) ~ Still here, still working for you: with @NPRMichel in NPR Studio 31 at 5:19am.
Spoiler alert: it isn't.
But the Left doesn't want press freedom. They want their own version of Pravda, wherein they shill for Democrats at our expense.
Yeah, and as for the pompous buffoon, Steve Inskeep ... you're not working for us, you jackass ... you're working for the DNC AND against the American People. If you want NPR to continue its spewing of leftist, anti-American propaganda, then get your buddies like George Soros to fund you. Until then ...
Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) ~ Imagine how brain-wormed you have to be to think that the government not funding government media outlets is an attack on freedom of the press.
Well, Lulu works for the New York Times and CNN. Brainworms are required for employment.
Mike (@MadMadMadWorld_) ~ State funded left-wing media isn't "freedom of the press." Never mind left-wing media - any state funded media. Good grief. The @nytimes is such an embarrassment.
The New York Times is incapable of embarrassment.
IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) ~ State funded media is the polar opposite of freedom of the press. Of all people, members of the actual free press should understand this ... 🤦♂️
They understand it. They just don't like it.
Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) ~ They really do think freedom requires government funding.
Just like they think "charity" requires government funding.
Tweetoleon (@Tweetoleon) ~ Thomas Jefferson's Declaration is a laundry list of British tyrannies. That they refused to fund Ben Franklin's newspaper wasn't one of them. Government-funded media is literally the antithesis of a free press. Is Lulu stupid or disingenuous? You decide.
We're going to go with "both" on that one.
Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) ~ Attack on freedom of the press? Um, the press is actually freer when it’s not dependent on funding by the government.
As we said, they don't want free press. They want money to be propagandists for the Democrat Party.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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