UNFAIR Fight: PBS, NPR Use Their Money to Lobby for More of YOUR Money
If you want to defund PBS and NPR, it’s an unfair fight. Public broadcasting uses all its own resources – including its taxpayer subsidies – to lobby for more taxpayer money. NPR station WBEZ in Chicago sent an email titled “Stand up for public media — your voice matters.” The graphic inside proclaimed “PROTECT FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: Support public media.”
WHOA: NPR Interviews Gutfeld, Fights With Him Over 'Racist' Asian Joke
NPR typically hates everything about Fox News, so it was shocking when Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon interviewed Fox late-night host Greg Gutfeld. It's much more typical for NPR to toss roses at Stephen Colbert (in multiple softball interviews) when he's selling a cookbook (ka-ching).
NewsBusters Podcast: The Leftist Media Enforcers of Ideological Purity
Reporters like Oliver Darcy and David Folkenflik serve as sounding boards for the radical-left staffers inside liberal media outlets who are furious whenever owners or executives threaten to move any outlet toward the center, or make any move that seems to please President Trump. Vicious bias is equated with freedom of speech.
Former WashPost Editor Fears Financial Scrutiny of Public Broadcasting
With the Trump administration and Congress focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget, there’s an effort underway to make sure public broadcasting ended up under the microscope. The notion that public broadcasting would be held to any form of accountability, including the possibility they broke federal law, was apparently beyond the pale for former Washington Post…
‘PUBLIC’ Broadcasting Watch: PBS and NPR Trashed the Trump Speech
PBS and NPR know that Trump, Musk, and the Republicans are looking at defunding them, but they inevitably covered Trump’s speech to Congress with their usual anti-Trump tilt.
NPR's 'Public Editor' Dismisses Bias Claims, Pushes for NPR Subsidies
NPR's Public Editor is supposed to represent the audience. They proclaim, "The Public Editor stands as a source of independent accountability. Created by NPR's board of directors, the Public Editor serves as a bridge between the newsroom and the audience." But more often -- especially now with the threat of defunding -- there's not independence or accountability. There's just pro-NPR lobbying…
'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: NPR's Tamara Keith Is NOT 'Independent'
NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith joined the conga line of journalists protesting President Trump for taking the press-pool and press-credential powers away from the White House Correspondents Association. As a former WHCA president, Keith tweeted: “An independent press makes our leaders more accountable and our nation stronger.” Keith is not independent. NPR and PBS both rely on her…
NewsBusters Podcast: Trying NOT to Yell at NPR's CEO Dismissing Bias
NPR CEO Katherine Maher came for a 15-minute interview at a Semafor summit on "trust in media," but it was a softball session. Instead of being pressed on NPR's liberal tilt, Semafor reporter Maxwell Tani was incredibly vague: "What have you done in your first year to build or restore trust in NPR?" I was in the room, and suppressed the desire to yell about the answer (and the question).
Lame-Brained NPR Can't Identify Any 'Extremism' on the Leftist Side
We at NewsBusters have often explained that “public” broadcasters like NPR pay reporters to be an “Extremism” correspondent, but strangely, the ideological spectrum seems to go from the “far right” extreme to some sort of center-left. They cannot seem to acknowledge with the slightest fraction of honesty that there is any identifiable or newsworthy extremism on the Left.
NPR Story Stars Dumped USAID Staffers Trashing 'Evil' Trump Actions
WAMU-FM, the NPR station airing news all day in D.C., has openly sided with the federal bureaucracy and against the Trump team's effort to reform government. On Friday morning, their aired a story for four and a half minutes during Morning Edition that was devoted only to frustrated staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The "evil" Trump side wasn't allowed to…
NB Podcast: PBS & NPR Lose Their Minds Over Musk & His CPAC Chainsaw
Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw at CPAC, striking a pose next to Argentina’s president Javier Milei. The networks really hate Elon Musk for trying to reduce government in any way. "Public" broadcasters are incredibly anti-Musk, since they are dreading the DOGE wagon pulling up to PBS and NPR.
Column: NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump
At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations, badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.
PBS: Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ Ban Attacks Freedom of 'Nonpartisan' AP
PBS’s regular Monday political conclave with Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith ran hotter than usual, with concerns about President Trump’s purported assault on the First Amendment fanning the fear flames, leading the panel to make ridiculous defenses of the non-partisan (!) Associated Press.
MSNBC Bemoans Loss of Trust in 'Legitimate Newsrooms' Like Them
On Tuesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, a panel hosted by Stephanie Ruhle expressed their regret, dismay, and indignation at the implosion of public confidence in established, mainstream media outlets, such as their own. In typical fashion for them, they pinned all the blame on such favorite bogeymen as President Trump and Elon Musk, and showed no self-awareness of the…
