Taxpayer-Funded NPR Promotes Leftist Effort to ‘Chop Off Fox News’s Head’

Nationwide Public Radio has made it clear over time that it despises Fox Information. On June 9, the morning earlier than the primetime Pelosi Panel listening to, Morning Version promoted a radical leftist group of censors that desires Fox Information beheaded. In fact, NPR by no means known as them “leftist” or something ideological on air as they goal to starve Fox Information of digital adverts. (The net story makes use of “left-leaning” in paragraph 9.) 

The story was headlined “Group aiming to defund disinformation tries to empty Fox Information of internet advertising.” The chief of the group “Test My Advertisements” was only a former marketer. The NPR story started:

BOBBY ALLYN: Former marketer Nandini Jammi wished to struggle the unfold of disinformation on-line and turned to one thing she knew so much about – promoting.

NANDINI JAMMI: We began to ask this query, why is the promoting trade nonetheless funding hate speech, though advertisers have made it so clear that they do not need to be wherever close to it?

Later that day, Jammi made it clear what NPR signed as much as promote :

Naturally, former CNN president Jon Klein — the man who canceled Crossfire as a result of liberals could not stand an opposing view — is right here noting that funding hate speech is “the nightmare of most accountable entrepreneurs.”

BOBBY ALLYN: Now with the congressional hearings into the January 6 assault on the Capitol getting below means, Test My Advertisements hopes it’s going to have success going after a much bigger goal – Fox Information’ web site and its standard YouTube channel. Mikel Ellcessor is the group’s chief working officer.

MIKEL ELLCESSOR: Now all we’re doing is we’re saying, why is Fox Information and particularly foxnews.com getting a go?

ALLYN: Ellcessor factors to Fox Information star Tucker Carlson, who has expressed sympathy for the rioters who stormed the Capitol whereas dismissing the significance of the occasions that day. He additionally has unfold falsehoods concerning the 2020 presidential election. Atkin says the group is asking on the general public to strain advert exchanges run by corporations like Google and Verizon to dam Fox from receiving on-line adverts.

CLAIRE ATKIN: Advertisers have mentioned time and again, we do not need to fund violence. And so it is stunning that Fox Information remains to be receiving these advert {dollars}.

NPR proves it is a left-wing platform by equating Fox Information with violence and “disinformation.” The one dissent was an announcement from FNC: 

ALLYN: In an announcement, Fox Information dismissed the marketing campaign as an effort at censorship, saying, quote, “there is no higher risk to democracy than the hassle to silence free speech.” The cable community additionally mentioned it takes satisfaction in that includes extra dissenting views than different cable information shops.

Taking up Fox is not any straightforward feat. First, the large advert exchanges might worry a backlash from conservatives. And even when the marketing campaign is profitable, it would not kneecap Fox. About 95% of Fox’s earnings come from its cable division, so dropping on-line adverts would barely put a dent within the firm financially. However Test My Advertisements co-founder Jammi is not deterred.

JAMMI: We are able to do extra than simply complain and be unhappy and tweet and share with one another that we’re unhappy about the place Fox Information is taking us as a rustic. We are able to truly struggle again.

ALLYN: In accordance with an estimate by ComScore and NewsGuard, disinformation on-line generates about $2 billion a 12 months in promoting income. Test My Advertisements says their goal isn’t just to take that cash out of circulation, but in addition to push the internet advertising trade to be extra clear about how adverts wind up on websites within the first place.

Depriving the conservative media of any income is just one other day for “democracy” at NPR.

PS: Jammi would not play good on Twitter, and she or he’s specific about deplatforming conservatives like Dan Bongino:

I’ve seen that Dan Bongino has been unusually quiet about our Fox marketing campaign launch

I wouldn’t be shocked if Fox execs informed him to stfu bc final time he messed with us, he misplaced his @googleads account — and his present on Fox Nation that might be subsequent. pic.twitter.com/DPdh2yemUd

— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) June 11, 2022