PBS Decries 'Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution' As Trump Defunds

Self-reflection was absent as the cast of characters that made up Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order that cut off their taxpayer money. From putting their heads in the sand on their liberal bias, to trying to make themselves free speech martyrs, Friday’s show by itself showed by Trump’s move was the correct one.

Alex Christy
May 3rd, 2025 9:47 AM

Ex-NPR Anchor Says Trump Hates PBS/NPR Because He Hates 'Independence'

On Friday's episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump's executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who spent 17 years at NPR, had a theory about Trump -- he just hates "independence," anything that threatens his…

Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2025 6:36 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS & NPR Get DEFUNDED Via Trump Executive Order

It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored media like PBS and NPR. And since the EO was such a major event, usual host Tim Graham…

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 2nd, 2025 6:59 PM

Before Trump Laid Hammer on PBS/NPR, They Sponged for Money by Email

The fundraising arms of PBS and NPR were already on the defensive over challenges to their overwhelmingly biased reporting on the taxpayers’ dime. Now comes President Trump’s executive order Thursday night cutting taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.

Clay Waters
May 2nd, 2025 4:39 PM

Sen. Lee Calls Out Meta, Draws Eyes to AI ‘Defamation Campaign’ Video

Meta is on the hot seat after Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) drew attention to a video that he wrote “describes in detail the ruthless and elaborate defamation campaign waged by Meta AI."

Tom Olohan
May 2nd, 2025 4:18 PM

CNN’s Stelter Pulls His Hair Out Over Trump's EO Defunding PBS/NPR

Despite repeatedly calling Fox News “state TV” during President Trump’s first term (when he still had his show, so-called Reliable Sources), CNN’s Brian Stelter decried Trump’s executive order defunding the actual state-media outlets of PBS and NPR. In his appearance on Friday’s Inside Politics, Stelter argued that Trump didn’t have the authority to strip funding but he…

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 2nd, 2025 4:01 PM

Former NPR CEO: Ceasing Taxpayer Support Is 'Attacking a Free Press'

Former scandal-plagued NPR CEO Vivian Schiller joined CNN News Central guest host Erica Hill on Friday to freak out over President Donald Trump’s Thursday executive order that ceased taxpayer money from going to NPR and PBS. According to Schiller, the move is just another example of Trump “attacking a free press” for reporting on things he does not like.

Alex Christy
May 2nd, 2025 2:37 PM

Kinzinger Warns Trump May Target Him, Defends Arrested Judge

Former Republican congressman-turned-Democrat-endorsing CNN talking head Adam Kinzinger joined former Today co-host and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on her Next Question podcast to discuss President Donald Trump. During their interview, Kinzinger would lob off Nazi comparisons, bizarre hypotheticals, and long for a version of the pre-Trump good old days that…

Alex Christy
May 2nd, 2025 1:35 PM

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

Geoffrey Dickens
May 2nd, 2025 1:11 PM

ABC, CBS Morning Shows Skip Trump EO to Defund Far-Left Pals NPR, PBS

Late Thursday night, President Trump moved via executive order to defund far-left networks National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS on the TV side, ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cease direct and indirect taxpayer funding in addition to government agencies ceasing federal grants. A move decades in the making, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings were…

Curtis Houck
May 2nd, 2025 1:09 PM

Kimmel, Pritzker Claim GOP Knows Lincoln Would Be a Democrat Today

Over the next couple of years, the late night comedy shows will become a stomping ground for 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls and on Thursday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel helped kick start that process by welcoming Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to the show. Together the two would implicitly accuse Republicans of racism by claiming they “know full well” Abraham Lincoln would be a Democrat today and…

Alex Christy
May 2nd, 2025 10:10 AM

Column: Is Oklahoma In Danger of 'Satanic School'?

The Supreme Court heard arguments on April 30 on whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma named for St. Isidore the Farmer can be the first charter school with a religious foundation. It’s the latest case to alarm the media about the so-called “separation of church and state.”

Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2025 6:00 AM

BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order to End Tax Money for PBS, NPR

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the “Rapid Response 47” account on X. It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news…

Tim Graham
May 2nd, 2025 5:35 AM

DEPRESSING: CBS Report Weirdly Promotes Childlessness

Tonight’s CBS Evening News gave viewers something beyond the normal network fare: garden-variety Malthusianism couched in equal parts brave self-determination and concern for others. And it was quite disconcerting to view.

Jorge Bonilla
May 2nd, 2025 1:28 AM