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DEFUND NPR & PBS: Schneider Calls Out Publicly-Funded Misinfo Outlets

July 11th, 2025 12:02 PM

NPR and PBS are scrambling to keep their funding, and MRC’s VP for External Affairs Dan Schneider has been myth-busting through their best arguments.

Scheider told WMAL host Larry O’Connor on his show Friday that NPR and PBS have hired lawyers and lobbyists who are “going around saying if Republicans…

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'PUBLIC' Radio Watch: NPR's 'Fresh Air' Has ZERO Conservative Journos

July 10th, 2025 3:15 PM

Fresh Air is a daily National Public Radio chat show out of WHYY in Philadelphia (which airs nationwide). A NewsBusters review of Fresh Air programs from January 1 through June 30 reveals there have been 36 interviews with liberal and leftist journalists, and precisely zero with conservative journalists.

Column: Networks Yawn at Mamdani's Fake Claims of Blackness

July 9th, 2025 5:52 AM

On June 25, 33-year-old Democrat Zohran Mamdani became a new socialist sensation in the media when he won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS gave the "charming" extremist about an hour of air time. But when The New York Times reported he lied on a college application that he was "Black," none of them touched it.

In Totally Tilted NPR Show, One Caller Says It's 'Partisan, Hacky'

July 6th, 2025 6:49 AM

Whenever PBS or NPR air a discussion on defunding PBS and NPR, it's always a tremendously one-sided chat. On a recent hour of the NPR chat show 1A, it was entirely pro-"public media," except for about 75 words from one caller who called it "terrible," "partisan," and "hacky." NPR's "Public Editor" completely denied there was any political bias.

NPR's Extremism Reporter Only Finds Extremism in Trump Protecting Jews

July 4th, 2025 7:37 PM

NPR’s radical “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef took an insane angle on the Trump Administration’s efforts to punish Harvard University for failing to protect Jewish students from anti-semitism on campus – twisting it into Trump trying to halt the arc of racial justice. The online transcript of Tuesday’s NPR’s flagship news program All Things Considered featured this…

NPR Promotes Leftist Mamdani, Denounces 'Racist Anti-Muslim Attacks'

July 3rd, 2025 4:13 PM

One of the least surprising things ever was National “Public” Radio rushing in to promote radical leftist New York City mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani. Inside their leftist bubble, critiques of Mamdani are “unsubstantiated.”

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NPR's Inskeep Finds It 'Interesting' GOP Doesn't Complain About Fox

July 1st, 2025 1:14 PM

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep joined Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast hosts Max Tani and Ben Smith last Friday to discuss the current battle over NPR’s public funding. There were several puzzling claims made throughout, including claims that Fox’s personnel decisions and Hunter Biden laptop coverage are analogous to NPR’s.

NPR Champions 'Joyful Blowout' of Drag Queens for Climate Activism

June 28th, 2025 9:00 PM

As Congress debates defunding PBS and NPR in part because they are relentless liberal propaganda, Friday night's All Things Considered newscast on NPR championed...drag queens for climate activism. It's like Mad Libs for mad leftists. 

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MRC VP Dan Schneider Expresses Optimism on Senate Defunding PBS, NPR

June 28th, 2025 7:36 PM

MRC Vice President Dan Schneider appeared Thursday on the hot morning D.C. talk show O’Connor & Co. on WMAL-FM to discuss the potential clawback of $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds the PBS and NPR networks. It passed the House, and needs to pass the Senate soon. "I think it passes," Schneider said after witnessing the Senate…

Column: Broadcast Love Letters for Lisa Murkowski

June 27th, 2025 5:55 AM

Here’s how it's so easy to identify the national media as liberal Democrats: They hate “moderate” Democrats. They love moderate Republicans. They despise disunity in their party, and love to fester disunity in the Other Party. This week, we’ve witnessed an outpouring of love for Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, which you would never see for a Joe Manchin.

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CBS Airs Badly Disguised Ad for 'Public' Radio In Louisiana

June 26th, 2025 1:42 PM

Liberal journalists rush to the support of other liberal journalists to insure the wider distribution of liberal bias. That’s why you see networks like CBS rushing to defend “public” radio in "rural" Shreveport, Louisiana (pop. 187,000). CBS headlined its online story: "Inside a Louisiana NPR station threatened by federal cuts: 'Without it, people would die'."

NPR Valorizes Old Left Protester: 'Crystalizing Moment' for Anti-Trump

June 23rd, 2025 9:32 AM

In Friday’s online NPR piece “The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol,” Alina Hartounian, who edits and writes for NPR.org, made a hero of an elderly activist protesting the recent U.S. military parade, who got arrested. NPR played the feisty old man angle hard to an embarrassing extent. The report began in medias res, the reporter striving to…

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Jim Acosta Wants BIG $$$ Infusion to PBS and NPR, 'Too Big to Fail'

June 20th, 2025 2:27 PM

Earlier, we noted former CNN White House screamer Jim Acosta's appearance on Tuesday at a panel at the Center for American Progress. But it's still worth isolating Acosta's remarks on how there should be a big cash infusion into PBS and NPR, to make them "too big to fail."

Will Google AI Gemini Say Defund PBS for Partisan Juneteenth Content?

June 19th, 2025 2:27 PM

Google’s Gemini drastically changed its answer on radical content targeting children once it became clear that taxpayer money was on the line.