Defunded NPR Accuses Trump of Pulling the Plug on Freedom of Speech

January 27th, 2026 6:39 AM

In “How President Trump has challenged a constitutional foundation -- Here's how Trump has reshaped the country and eroded democratic norms” -- a story that required no less than 19 staffers to report out, the formerly publicly funded National Public Radio indulged left-wing paranoia over the Trump administration’s alleged targeting of “freedom of speech and expression.” At…

Awful America? NPR Host Compares Trump's USA to the 1970s Soviet Bloc

January 26th, 2026 11:03 AM

For decades, National Public Radio was funded by American taxpayers, but these people do not love America, especially when Republicans are in charge. On the latest Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon demonstrated this by comparing today’s America to Eastern Europe under the domination of the totalitarian Soviet Union.

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NPR Morning Host Cues Whitmer to Spread Fear of DHS Election Meddling

January 21st, 2026 4:47 PM

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is bringing his long-standing Obama-polishing interview style to the early contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is the latest beneficiary, after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The primary subject was, inevitably, Donald Trump as a threat to…

When NPR Likes Religion: Episcopal Nut Calls for Anti-ICE 'Martyrdom'

January 18th, 2026 10:32 PM

Sudden respect for religion over the (previously) public airwaves? In the wake of the confrontations in left-wing Minneapolis over the shooting death by an immigration enforcement officer of protester Renee Good, who drove toward the officer after being given a lawful command to exit her vehicle, NPR is discovering the virtues of activist faith, at least when it can be turned to anti-Trump and…

NPR Relies on LGBTQ+ Activist to 'Report' on Trans Arguments at SCOTUS

January 15th, 2026 6:47 AM

Two highly anticipated cases involving transgender athletes -- i.e. biological men suing for the right to compete in women’s sports came -- before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with opinions on the cases expected by the end of June. National Public Radio’s All Things Considered covered the opening arguments on Sunday. NPR’s idea of an objective reporter? Transgender (biological female…

NPR Distorts Trans Debate With Activist Lingo: 'Assigned Sex at Birth'

January 13th, 2026 10:29 PM

National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg previewed oral arguments in two Supreme Court cases involving transgender females (i.e., males) participating in female sports on NPR’s Morning Edition Tuesday. Totenberg approached the issue as if the Supreme Court started this skirmish in the “culture wars,” as opposed to the radical “gender-affirming” side that…

NPR Critic: 2026 Media Scene Looks 'Ominous' If Trump Isn't Thrashed

January 12th, 2026 3:00 PM

NPR Critic-at-Large Eric Deggans penned a pessimistic media analysis for Saturday: "2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism." That means an ominous Trumpian trend, but it's amusing how liberal bias aggressively opposing Trump is considered a "gold standard" of "fair, accurate reporting." 

NPR Faults Trump Calling Maduro 'Dictator' After Smearing Him Same Way

January 6th, 2026 8:25 AM

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition offered a petulant rundown of the shocking and wildly successful involuntary expatriation of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from Caracas to face drug trafficking charges in America (“7 takeaways from Trump's action in Venezuela”). Senior political editor Domenico Montanaro unleashed this doozy of a double-standard for entry No. 4, sub-headed…

NPR Anchor Inskeep: Much Evidence of Our Liberal Bias Is 'Imaginary'

January 5th, 2026 10:02 PM

As you should expect, NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep is a cheerleader for his “news” network. On his Substack page came a titled “Public radio may be stronger in 2026.” He claimed "The fact-free hypothesis of NPR’s partisan critics was that NPR lost audience in the early 2020’s because it was too woke... much of the 'evidence' of bias was imaginary."

NPR Sounds Like DNC Radio, Promotes Trump-Trashing Takes on Venezuela

January 4th, 2026 6:53 PM

There’s nothing like a dramatic military action by President Trump to underline how much National “Public” Radio sounds like DNC Radio. Both Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep. Adam Smith were gently set up to denounce Trump, on Saturday morning and evening. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Deny Trump Any 'Achievements' in 2025

January 2nd, 2026 9:35 AM

What were President Trump’s “achievements” in 2025? The media use and abuse of this term is an important measurement of bias. Conservative wins don't get the A-word.  Achievements are programs like Obamacare, lauded as Obama’s “signature achievement.” It doesn’t matter if the Affordable Care Act ended up affordable. Capitalism is measured by its results. Socialism is measured by intentions.…

New York Times Hails NPR CEO's 'Unyielding' Denial of Leftist Bias

December 31st, 2025 3:22 PM

The New York Times is not your most reliable narrator on all stories about NPR: their weekday podcast The Daily runs on hundreds of NPR affiliates, which creates an obvious rooting interest for the network. On Tuesday, Times media reporter Benjamin Mullin poured on the sympathy.

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Screw-Ups, Shutdowns, & Soros: Our Ten Most-Read Stories of 2025

December 31st, 2025 1:34 PM

2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS. As you’ll see below in our top-ten list of the most read stories, you’ll see NPR come up along with the major…

NPR Won't Credit Trump as Crime Plummets, Will Blame Him If It Rises

December 27th, 2025 9:55 AM

“Crime in the U.S. fell in 2025. Will the trend continue?” ran on the Christmas Eve edition of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. But after months of coverage bashing President Trump for sending troops into cities to fight crime (i.e. “Do Trump's D.C. moves echo an authoritarian playbook?”) Trump gets no credit in reporter Meg Anderson’s good-news story about an…