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More Reasons to Defund NPR: Examining Controversial Extremism Narratives

This week the Media Research Center released a study, “Five Reasons to Defund ‘Public’ Broadcasting.” National Public Radio provided still another reason on Tuesday’s edition of All Things Considered

Odette Yousef, NPR’s “domestic extremism correspondent” (solely “right-wing” extremism) has previously filed insane stories on a host of topics in that cluster, in 2023 linking the populist anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” to an “anti-Semitic blood libel.”

But on Tuesday she hurled herself headlong into the abyss, comparing rumors of transgender crimes spread online to Nazism. Host Ailsa Chang set up the appalling segment.

AILSA CHANG, Host: In the hours after a Black Hawk helicopter fatally collided with an American Airlines jet last week, social media erupted with the claim that the craft was piloted by a transgender service…

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