NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Discusses NPR President’s Push to Tax Americans to Fund BBC-Style State Media
The National Public Radio (NPR) executive who fired Juan Williams is behind an effort lobbying for a new tax to be levied on private media outlets in order to finance a BBC-style state media, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center Brent Bozell told viewers of Fox Business Network's “Varney & Company” at 10:45 a.m. today. NPR president Vivian Schiller is “part of a group which wants to essentially tax existing media companies… and use that tax money to create a national network of public broadcasting companies to put out a news broadcast on a national basis, like an American BBC,” Varney noted. “Let's put it another way, the attack on Juan Williams… wasn't really an attack on Juan Williams,” Bozell replied. read more
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NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Discusses NPR President’s Push to Tax Americans to Fund BBC-Style State Media
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