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VIDEO: PBS and NPR, Versus Their Own Record of Venom and Deceit

June 6th, 2025 1:17 PM

Well, it’s finally happened: the Trump White House has sent a rescissions package to Congress containing $1.1 Billion in cuts to funding for NPR and PBS. Now House Republicans just have to pass it.

Guess Who Google Blots Out in ‘Trump Rescission’ Package Search

June 6th, 2025 12:28 PM

Google excluded right-leaning media outlets from search results about a Trump administration rescission package. MRC researchers found that Google's results favored left-leaning media such as NPR and PBS, omitting conservative sources like Fox News and The Daily Caller. MRC President David Bozell condemned Google for bias, claiming it erases conservative voices. The search results' political…

At WorldPride D.C., NPR Forwards Unfounded LGBTQ Panic Over at Trump

June 5th, 2025 10:36 PM

National Public Radio “breaking news” reporter Ayana Archie served up an example of tax-funded public media once again going beyond traditional liberal media support for gay rights and going full throttle to throw unprofessional, anti-journalistic support to the entire alphabet movement (LGBTQIA….) in an article posted to NPR on Thursday, “The LGBT community shows up for WorldPride in D.C.,…

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'They Would Suffer': Stelter Warns Of PBS And NPR Defunding

June 5th, 2025 2:20 PM

CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter joined The Situation Room on Wednesday morning to freak out over President Trump’s rescission package that asks Congress to revoke funding for PBS and NPR. According to Stelter, not only would such a move cause local affiliates to “suffer as well,” but he also hyped PEN America saying the real reason for the move was about “discouraging real news…

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David Bozell on WMAL Sees Path Forward for Defunding PBS & NPR

June 5th, 2025 11:32 AM

MRC President David Bozell joined WMAL’s "O'Connor & Co." show on  Wednesday morning to break down the latest developments in the push to stop the misuse of taxpayer dollars by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Bozell expressed optimism that defunding will happen. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Can the Republicans Finally Cut Off PBS and NPR?

June 4th, 2025 10:17 PM

On Tuesday, The Trump administration sent its rescission package to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

NPR CEO's Comedy Tour Continues: We Are 'Centrist....Nonpartisan News'

June 4th, 2025 2:01 PM

Give her credit: Chief executive Katherine Maher is not afraid to look ridiculous on her quest to save National Public Radio from the federal chopping block. On Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal’s podcast, hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza, Maher claimed "we are consistently found to be centrist in reporting....we are a nonpartisan news organization."

Pelosi or Johnson? Google Fails to Hide PBS’s Favoritism

June 4th, 2025 12:37 PM

Even Google couldn’t mask  PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage favor Nancy Pelosi or Mike Johnson?” The chatbot tried to hedge its answer, citing PBS’s purported “commitment to journalistic integrity.” But ultimately, when…

Google, Wikipedia Run Cover for THIS NPR Reporting Failure

June 2nd, 2025 10:59 AM

Did Google just use leftist Wikipedia to cover for news outlets that are due for a reckoning?

MRC researchers asked Google Search on Thursday whether NPR and PBS hid the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the top of the two searches, Google’s artificial intelligence weighed in with an emphatic no, citing none other than…

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SHOCKER: Ex-Trump Aide Dares to Trash NPR's Leftist Bias...ON NPR!

June 1st, 2025 6:54 AM

If NPR truly achieved fairness and balance on air, it would include conservatives trashing NPR for making America worse. This actually happened for a minute this week on the NPR show Left Right and Center, where ex-Trump spokesman Mike Dubke trashed NPR and ProPublica for undermining public confidence in the Supreme Court. 

HA! NPR Got $1.9M Grant to Try Objectivity, Add ‘Diverse Viewpoints’

May 31st, 2025 10:00 PM

Last October, National Public Radio (NPR) was awarded a $1.9 million grant to make “editorial enhancements” – such as improving its objectivity – but, seven months later, the leftist bias of the taxpayer-funded public radio content organization rages on.

NewsBusters Podcast: 'The View' Hails NPR's Totenberg, Queen of Leaks

May 30th, 2025 9:45 PM

As NPR faces the prospect of being defunded by conservatives, ABC's The View marked Jewish American Heritage Month by honoring former NPR anchor Susan Stamberg and NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, touted as the 'Queen of Leaks,' meaning leaks from Democrats seeking to damage Republicans.

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NPR Chief Tries Comedy on PBS: 'We're a Nonpartisan News Organization'

May 29th, 2025 11:06 AM

Katherine Maher, CEO of National Public Radio, continued her sympathy tour to save NPR from the Trump administration’s executive order, with a pit stop at NPR’s publicly funded cohort, PBS’s News Hour program. When gently challenged that Trump says NPR lacks viewpoint diversity, she comically claimed: "I first of all, respond by saying we're a nonpartisan news organization." 

NB Podcast: NPR Pompously Equates Its Subsidies with First Amendment

May 28th, 2025 10:57 PM

NPR argues with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. Apparently, liberal speech must be forcibly supported by conservative taxpayers for the Constitution to be upheld. Trained lawyer Dan Schneider exposes the nonsense.