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Bill Maher Favors Defunding PBS and NPR: 'They Have To Be Private'

March 30th, 2025 9:10 AM

On the "Overtime" segment of his HBO show, Bill Maher was asked about the House DOGE hearing on PBS and NPR bias. He said "My namesake, Katherine Maher, was head of NPR, and she said 'we're completely unbiased.' Give me a break, lady! I mean, they're crazy far-left." He favors defunding PBS and NPR.

CNN Uses “Legacy” of beloved TV Host as Plug For PBS
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CNN Lines Up Mister Rogers Nephew in Shameless Plug for PBS

March 28th, 2025 2:23 PM

If it had started to seem that CNN couldn’t stoop any lower, they proved that wrong Thursday. That afternoon, the network exploited the memory of one of American television’s most beloved figures as a plug for the taxpayer-subsidized left-wing propaganda machines PBS and NPR as the Trump administration threatened to pull the plug on their funds.

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NPR Alum Cornish Surprisingly Suggests NPR & PBS Forego Fed Funding

March 27th, 2025 4:13 PM

CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish, in an interview with Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT], suggests that NPR/PBS accept an end to its federal funding. Surprising, considering that Cornish is an NPR alum, having co-hosted All Things Considered.

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PBS, NPR Cover Their Own Bosses, Downplay Ridiculous Bias Denial

March 27th, 2025 9:50 AM

PBS and NPR each faced the difficulty on Wednesday night of covering their own bosses taking tough questions from Republicans at the Capitol in a hearing on Wednesday. PBS actually aired a Republican citing us -- just as a "conservative media watchdog group."

Tax-Funded NPR Flunks Biology Again: 'He's Already Frozen His Eggs'

March 27th, 2025 8:15 AM

Publicly funded National Public Radio continued to defy basic biology by muddling the facts of life, with sentences like "He's already frozen his eggs in case he wants to have his own biological children one day...."

Column: The New York Times Defends Their P.R. Partners at PBS and NPR

March 27th, 2025 5:57 AM

The House DOGE subcommittee presses the CEOs of PBS and NPR about their biases, but The New York Times warned of "dark pronouncements by Republicans" in "a fiery hearing that represented the latest salvo against the American press by close allies of the Trump administration.” Exposing liberal bias is "anti-press." The Times attacking Fox News is not "anti-press."

Gaslighting: PBS Tries to Refute Bias Claims Before House Testimony

March 26th, 2025 9:45 PM

Before Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the heads of PBS and NPR in front of the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE), PBS’s flagship news show News Hour offered up some gaslighting on Tuesday evening in defense of the program’s political objectivity and balance -- a laughable proposition to anyone who has watched an episode.

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Here Are the Top Moments from the DOGE Hearing on Defunding NPR & PBS

March 26th, 2025 6:23 PM

On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) held a hearing featuring the CEOs of National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS amid a new push to achieve a decades-old effort to defund the far-left propaganda outlets that annually see hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars.With their federal dollars on the line, NPR’s Katherine Maher and PBS’s Paula Kerger…

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‘I’d Be Honored’; Trump Gives Support to Efforts to Defund NPR, PBS

March 25th, 2025 4:56 PM

On Tuesday during a White House press pool Q&A ahead of a meeting with prospective U.S. Ambassadors, President Donald Trump gave his support to the House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee as it prepares to hold a hearing Wednesday with the heads of taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, adding “I’d be honored” if he were the president to finally defund…

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PBS Hypes NPR Podcast on Crazy Dad with Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories

March 25th, 2025 9:52 AM

PBS News Weekend helped their brethren at NPR promote a podcast series on Sunday in a segment headlined "How online misinformation is ‘supercharging’ conspiracy theories." Podcaster Zach Mack made a three-part podcast on how his conservative Christian father has gone down a "rabbit hole" of conspiracy thinking.

NewsBusters Podcast: Cheering and Laughing at the 'Tesla Takedown'

March 24th, 2025 10:46 PM

Rooting for bad things to happen to your adversaries isn't unusual. But when Rush Limbaugh said "I hope he fails" about incoming President Obama in 2009, leftists suggested he should be executed for treason. Now, people are talking about vandalism against Elon Musk's Tesla vehicles and dealerships, and crowds cheer and laugh as the Tesla stock price sinks. The double standard is obvious, with…

NPR Hosts Debate -- Between Begala Democrats and Nutty AOC Democrats

March 22nd, 2025 1:53 PM

NPR recently hosted a debate between two sides. No, it's not between Democrats and Republicans, but between liberal Democrats and really radical Democrats. On Tuesday's Morning Edition, the establishment Democrat was old Clinton spinner Paul Begala, and the radical was Waleed Shahid.

'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: 'Fresh Air' Adores Leftist Media Outlets

March 20th, 2025 10:25 AM

Right now, the guardians of the "public" broadcasting empire are defending their tax subsidies by claiming it's somehow extremely unique, and not just another liberal set of networks. In reality, PBS and NPR are echo chambers for legacy liberal media outlets. The NPR talk show Fresh Air has lavished hours on The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other…

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PBS Echoes NPR in Pushing 'Murder the Truth' Book Against Trump

March 19th, 2025 11:16 AM

On Monday, PBS News Hour followed NPR's Fresh Air in promoting New York Times reporter David Enrich's anti-Trump book Murder The Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. Right-wingers from President Trump to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are cartooned as "truth murderers."