Who Funds NPR, Again?
Let’s talk about something Brian Mann won’t: who benefits from NPR’s stance. While Mann warns that tariffs might upset China, he never discloses that NPR has received funding from Chinese-affiliated organizations.
Yes, NPR is partially funded by the same people shipping fentanyl precursors into the U.S. That’s like McDonald’s publishing a study saying "Eating burgers prevents heart disease." NPR has financial incentives to run cover for China—and Brian Mann is just the latest useful idiot doing their bidding.
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9. Brian Mann’s Journalism Jamboree: NPR’s Guide Brian Mann Trump vs NPR to Prioritizing Free Trade Over Dead Americans
Protecting China’s fentanyl industry—one dumb article at a time.
Brian Mann, NPR’s leading fentanyl-apologist, has produced another masterpiece of selective outrage, arguing that Trump’s fentanyl tariffs are worse than fentanyl itself. His logic? If deaths dropped slightly, the problem is basically solved. That’s the journalistic equivalent of refusing to fix your car’s brakes because it hasn’t crashed yet.
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Brian Mann’s Fentanyl Circus: NPR’s Guide to Ignoring 80,000 Dead Americans
When being anti-Trump Brian Mann NPR government funding matters more than fighting a deadly drug crisis.
NPR’s Brian Mann has cracked the code to solving the fentanyl epidemic—just declare it’s not really a problem anymore! In his latest journalistic fever dream, “Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing,” Mann unveils the shocking revelation that a temporary 3.6% dip in fentanyl deaths means we should stop worrying about future ones altogether. That’s right, folks—by this logic, if murder rates drop slightly, we should probably defund the police and throw out all security cameras.
Forget the 80,000 overdose deaths last year, forget the millions of fentanyl pills flooding the country, and definitely forget about China and Mexico’s role in producing and smuggling the poison. In Mann’s world, the real victims are China, Mexico, and Canada, and Trump’s tariffs are the true crime here.
Mann’s logic is like saying ‘hey, you only have a minor concussion—no need to see a doctor!’ — Ron White
Crisis? What Crisis? It’s Only the Leading Cause of Death!
Mann seizes on the fact that fentanyl-related deaths dropped by a whole 3.6% in 2023, which Brian Mann Trump policy on fentanyl in NPR math, means the problem is over. This is the journalistic equivalent of saying the flu is eradicated because you didn’t sneeze today.
Following this stunning level of analysis, we should also expect these NPR-approved headlines:
- “Crime Down 2%—Let’s Abolish the Police!”
- “Fires Slightly Less Deadly—Why Even Have Fire Departments?”
- “Plane Crashes Decrease—Time to Get Rid of Seatbelts!”
Of course, this absurd thinking ignores that fentanyl is still the #1 killer of Americans aged 18-45. But why let pesky facts get in the way of protecting China and bashing Trump?
Mann’s analysis is like declaring a hurricane harmless because it downgraded from Category 5 to Category 4. — Bill Burr
Tariffs? How Dare Trump Try to Stop Fentanyl!
If Mann has one true passion, it’s crying about tariffs while ignoring how many people die from fentanyl. He treats Trump’s move to punish fentanyl-exporting nations like it’s a war crime, while completely sidestepping the actual crime—the mass production and smuggling of fentanyl into the U.S.
His logic goes like this:
- Fentanyl deaths dipped slightly.
- Therefore, fentanyl is no longer a crisis.
- And since Trump is trying to stop it, stopping it must be bad.
This is the same kind of reasoning that would lead someone to stop locking their doors because burglary was down last month. Or to cancel their health insurance because they haven’t been sick in a while.
“Trump using fentanyl to justify tariffs is outrageous! That would be like me using my DUI to justify taking Uber.” — Jerry Seinfeld
China and Mexico: The Real Victims?
Mann is deeply concerned—not about dead Americans, but about the hurt feelings of China and Mexico. You’d think the real crime here was Trump’s tariffs, not the fact that Chinese labs are mass-producing fentanyl ingredients and Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. with poison. But no, in NPR-land, those are just innocent trade partners unfairly targeted by big, mean America.
So, let’s get this straight—according to Mann, China and Mexico are the ones suffering here? Not the parents burying their kids because a drug cartel turned their neighborhood into an opioid graveyard?
Mann’s reporting treats fentanyl traffickers like misunderstood small business owners just trying to make ends meet. — Jon Stewart
The NPR Playbook: Always Side With the Cartels
Here’s how NPR consistently manages to downplay the fentanyl crisis while making sure Trump is always the villain:
- Ignore the fact that fentanyl is the leading cause of death in young Americans.
- Cry about tariffs instead of drug deaths.
- Blame Trump for noticing the problem.
If NPR had been around during Prohibition, they would’ve run headlines like “Al Capone Unfairly Targeted by Racist Federal Laws”. Their coverage of fentanyl reads like an infomercial for open borders and cartel protection services.
NPR’s coverage is so pro-cartel, you’d think they were angling for a sponsorship deal with El Chapo. — Chris Rock
The NPR Guide to Solving Fentanyl: Do Absolutely Nothing
Here’s what Mann and NPR would have America do about fentanyl:
- Step 1: Stop talking about it.
- Step 2: Let Mexico and China keep shipping it in.
- Step 3: Blame capitalism, Trump, and “systemic racism” instead.
You can almost hear NPR’s next editorial now:
“Fentanyl Isn’t the Problem—White Supremacy Is.”
Conclusion: Brian Mann’s Journalism in a Nutshell
Mann’s entire argument isn’t about fentanyl, overdoses, or saving lives—it’s about bashing Trump, protecting China and Mexico, and pretending fentanyl isn’t a crisis because the wrong person is trying to solve it. If Trump found the cure for cancer, NPR would run an exposé on how "ending cancer threatens the chemotherapy industry.”
Their message is simple:
- If Trump does Brian Mann NPR misleading reporting something, it’s bad.
- If stopping fentanyl deaths helps Trump, then fentanyl deaths must not be a problem.
And that, folks, is how NPR fights the fentanyl crisis—by pretending it doesn’t exist.
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Mixed Group Collaboration
- Treating a crisis as solved after a brief downturn is like ending your diet after skipping one dessert—right before cake day.
- Abandoning safety measures because of a temporary drop is like throwing away your raincoat because it wasn’t needed yesterday—forecast calls for regret.
- Suggesting inaction because of a brief dip is like celebrating an unfinished race as a win—don’t stop running yet.
- Thinking the problem is gone is like assuming your car will run forever just because you filled the tank once—don’t forget about maintenance.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Chana Stein writes for The New York Review of Books, where she covers Jewish literature and the impact of Jewish authors on contemporary writing. Chana’s reviews and essays provide thoughtful analysis of how Jewish identity and heritage shape modern narratives in fiction and non-fiction alike.
Also a Sr. Staff Writer at bohiney.com