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Pants on Fire: CBS, MSNBC Insult Rural America Defending NPR, PBS
Ahead of a likely vote this week on a rescissions package to claw back $1 billion in funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, CBS’s streaming platform and MSNBC went full doom and gloom and lied to viewers Monday, insulting their intelligence by arguing rural Americans rely on NPR and PBS as “critical” lifeline, “their only source of information,” and “emergency alerts.”
CBS’s Margaret Brennan Equates PBS, NPR Rescissions to DEATH
Today’s installment of legacy media types suggesting that PEOPLLLLE WILL DIEEEEEE as a result of Congress rescinding funding for leftwing propaganda outlets PBS and NPR features CBS’s Margaret Brennan, who in a grotesque twist finds a way to tie imagined rescission-induced deaths to the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at Butler, PA.
Will GOP Senators Consider How PBS and NPR Gently Promote the DNC?
One easy way to see how NPR and PBS are taxpayer-funded Democrat Party platforms is to witness their recent interviews with the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin. Neither turned to touchy internal issues, specifically the brief career of David Hogg as a DNC leader. The questions seemed geared to this: How do we win? Will Senate Republicans consider this on the…
DEFUND NPR & PBS: Schneider Calls Out Publicly-Funded Misinfo Outlets
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…
'PUBLIC' Radio Watch: NPR's 'Fresh Air' Has ZERO Conservative Journos
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
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'
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
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'
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.”
Top Ten Myths About PBS and NPR
There is virtually nothing unique about public broadcasters anymore. The only thing that now differentiates NPR and PBS from their private sector competition is that they get about $1 billion in taxpayer subsidies annually (half via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and half from federal and state discretionary grants).
NPR's Inskeep Finds It 'Interesting' GOP Doesn't Complain About Fox
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
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.
MRC VP Dan Schneider Expresses Optimism on Senate Defunding PBS, NPR
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
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.
