Former Google CEO and Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt is giving $4.7 million to NPR to expand the left-wing network’s reach in the Midwest and California with the creation of two newsrooms.
NPR announced Tuesday that the grant from Eric and Wendy Schmidt will help to expand NPR’s investigative reporting capacity and boost local news coverage.
Eric Schmidt was a major supporter of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. As revealed by WikiLeaks, Schmidt even loaned Google’s corporate jet to members of the Clinton campaign on a number of occasions. Last year, he co-hosted a Hollywood fundraiser for Joe Biden.
Schmidt is teaming up with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to lead a blue-ribbon commission on transforming the state’s infrastructure post-coronavirus. Schmidt is expected to work on New York state’s approach to issues including telehealth, remote learning, and broadband access.
NPR said the new Midwest newsroom will provide content for all 25 public radio stations in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska. The California newsroom, which was announced earlier this year, will serve all 17 public radio stations across the state and is being led by former Marketplace editor Joanne Griffith.
The two newsrooms are part of NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network, an initiative announced last year to address the lack of reporting in so-called “news-deprived” areas of the country.
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Only the left loons listen to NPR anyway. Good let him waste his money.
ReplyDeleteThey don't need any more taxpayer money!
ReplyDeleteI listened to NPR years ago when it still had some semblance of dignity, honesty and a wide and somewhat nonpartisan perspective.
ReplyDeleteI also used to be a sustaining member. Those days are long gone.
time to say it again- I like classical music. I listen to WSCL all the time. I refuse to donate to them until they drop the NPR news. Why cant someone start a conservative culture network? A fox news for classical music?
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ReplyDeleteIOW, the peasants aren't buying our existing crapola so we're going to refine the pitch.
NPR needs to be defunded and to hope Air America's sponsors still have their paper routes to donate from.