NPR Devotes Time to Tapper, Thompson: GOP 'Very Happy With Your Book'

May 22nd, 2025 6:28 AM

While PBS can't even breathe the names "Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson" on the News Hour, NPR gave their book extensive time. First, there was 11 minutes with the two authors on Monday's All Things Considered. Then Tapper was interviewed for the hour on Tuesday on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The host said "Republicans, I think, are very happy with your book," and "…

Column: PBS, NPR, and the 'Unfounded' Charge of Bidens Hiding Cancer

May 21st, 2025 5:45 AM

You can always tell when a leftist media outlet doesn’t like a story angle. They’ll cry “no evidence,” and you want to ask them if they actually spent any time searching for evidence.  It’s their way of suggesting the story is too disreputable to pursue, like Hunter Biden’s laptop.

NPR Host Admits Show Censored Coverage of Common Sense COVID Proposal

May 15th, 2025 9:43 AM

Well, here’s a surprise: NPR’s “On Point” podcast, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and transmitting out of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, featured, on its May 5 show, an interview with author David Zweig highly critical of the hysterical and harmful reaction by the liberal “public health” establishment to the COVID pandemic. What's more, Chakrabarti herself revealed that an NPR higher-up cut…

NPR Frets Over Francis' LGBTQ Legacy: Will Church Be ‘Hateful' Toward

May 9th, 2025 9:42 AM

National Public Radio is in Rome for the just-concluded papal conclave, which elected American Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Before the white smoke appeared, All Things Considered host Scott Detrow interviewed LGBTQ-friendly Fr. James Martin for the occasion, Detrow even led his interview with it, the online transcript bearing the title "Will the next pope…

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PBS IS MSNBC: 'Morning Joe' Puffs PBS CEO for Their 'Reliable' News!

May 8th, 2025 10:28 AM

Morning Joe devoted a segment on Thursday to supporting taxpayer funding of PBS, with a series of softball questions for PBS CEO Paula Kerger.

Trump’s Rumble on Sesame Street

May 6th, 2025 5:24 PM

President Donald Trump has fought plenty of political heavyweights, but now he’s up against a foe far tougher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris: Big Bird. The president is ordering federal agencies and the taxpayer-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop supporting National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. His May 1 executive order is titled “Ending Taxpayer…

NPR: Trump's Defunding Order an 'Affront to First Amendment Rights'

May 6th, 2025 5:07 PM

Both PBS and National Public Radio are cadging for change, even before President Trump’s executive order cutting taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But NPR has gone out a bit further on the ledge since then, their tone becoming increasingly aggressive, even apocalyptic, as demonstrated by three recent donation banners that have flown on NPR’s…

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Velshi Claims Public Broadcasting Leads To Healthier Democracy

May 6th, 2025 1:44 PM

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi gave an ode to public broadcasting on his Sunday show, where he tried to claim that the existence of public media is correlated with democratic health. In order to make such a claim, Velshi had to ignore one major detail from the study he cited.

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CBS's Brennan Lines Up NPR and PBS CEOs to Dismiss Incessant Bias

May 4th, 2025 10:57 PM

One really easy way to know that TV journalists are Democrats is how they rush to defense of PBS and NPR and use all the same arguments that Democrats have made in congressional hearings and social media. They willfully ignore the incessant bias of "public" broadcasting and deflect back to kiddie shows like Sesame Street, as if that's anything like comparing Trump to Hitler. On Sunday…

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PBS Promotes Elie Mystal's Rage: Immigration Laws Are Deeply Racist

May 4th, 2025 6:48 AM

One easy way to prove that PBS and NPR are like taxpayer-funded MSNBC is their promotion of radical ranter Elie Mystal of The Nation magazine. On Amanpour & Co. on Friday, Hari Sreenivasan tossed softballs at Mystal for 17 minutes over his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. On March 24, NPR's Fresh Air platformed his rage for 36…

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'Malaise!' Nicolle Wallace Tries to Pin The Jimmy Carter Card On Trump

May 3rd, 2025 4:44 PM

On Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace brings on Michelle Norris, formerly of NPR's All Things Considered, now an MSNBC "senior contributing editor," to claim that President Trump's economic moves will bring about "malaise." Wallace echoes the M-word. Shades of Jimmy Carter!

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CNN, MSNBC Freak Out, Claim PBS 'Puts The Us In The U.S.'

May 3rd, 2025 2:30 PM

The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.

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

May 3rd, 2025 6:36 AM

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…

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

May 2nd, 2025 6:59 PM

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…