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Tapper Hints Colbert Canceled Because Trump Can't Take Criticism

July 19th, 2025 2:00 PM

CNN’s Jake Tapper tried desperately on The Lead on Friday to connect the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with parent company Paramount’s legal drama with President Trump. Tapper admitted he had no evidence for this but still found the whole thing to be “interesting” and promoted anonymous sources to help him advance his conspiracy theory.

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Brooks Claims PBS Is For Giving Local News To Maine

July 19th, 2025 9:27 AM

New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday news recap, David Brooks, unleashed an unintentionally hilarious counterargument to Congress’s decision earlier in the week to rescind federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. According to Brooks, not only is PBS not on the left, but it also provides local news to…

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PBS Can't Stop Trashing Argentina’s Triumphant 'Far-Right' Prez Milei

July 18th, 2025 10:41 PM

One more reason to defund PBS: Their reporters and researchers have no respect or understanding of libertarianism or libertarian voices (except on issues when libertarian ideology happens to match their own). Just see how PBS has covered Argentina’s president Javier Milei, whose radical reforms since taking office in December 2023 have already born fruit, as inflation, running rampant when…

NPR Blames ‘Climate Change’ for Texas Floods and ‘Brutal Rainstorms’

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July 18th, 2025 2:18 PM

The cuts to National Public Radio’s taxpayer funding have definitely been a long time coming. The leftist outlet is blaming climate change (there’s a surprise) for — wait for it — a lot of rain, in summertime!

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Scott Jennings SHUTS DOWN Colbert Cancellation Mourning Session

July 18th, 2025 12:39 PM

Last night’s episode of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip featured a segment dedicated to liberal grieving over the cancellation of CBS’s Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Conservative stalwart Scott Jennings took the opportunity to remind everyone that there was a far more important story taking place.

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Quiet Death: Networks Barely Cover Final Vote to Defund PBS, NPR

July 18th, 2025 11:38 AM

Despite the fact that their political correspondents were consumed by suddenly being concerned with a president’s health and their gleeful Epstein coverage, one would have thought ABC, CBS, and NBC could have still found time to go full Chicken Little about the House’s final passage of the $9 billion rescissions package that included a $1 billion clawback of funding to far-left PBS and NPR.…

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Huh? Schiff, Colbert Claim Defunding Public Media Disempowers Congress

July 18th, 2025 9:30 AM

In the first episode after CBS announced it would be canceling The Late Show, Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen. Adam Schiff to the program to make the nonsensical claim that Congress passing President Trump’s rescission package, which included cuts to PBS and NPR, showed how Congress is ceding its spending powers to the executive. Additionally, both men would have positive things to say…

Column: The Arrogant Media Are Not 'Bringing Us Closer Together'

July 18th, 2025 6:12 AM

As the world of “public” broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billion dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They’re not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere.

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Leavitt Destroys Hail Marys From NPR, PBS Ahead of Rescission Vote

July 17th, 2025 4:36 PM

While many in the White House press corps used their time Thursday afternoon to show sudden concern about transparency in the Jeffrey Epstein case, there were a few others who asked real questions about socialist Zohran Mamdani, Christians abroad, hospitals ending transgender surgeries for minors, reopening Alcatraz and, most importantly for those of us at the Media Research Center, the…

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PBS's Last Gasp: Save Public Media for the Safety of Remote Alaska

July 17th, 2025 2:04 PM

On Monday evening, hours before the U.S. Senate passed 51-48 President Trump’s rescission proposal to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which would end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR, guest host William Brangham hosted Tom Abbott, general manager of…

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CBS, NPR Team Up To Mourn 'Tremendous Tragedy' After Senate Defunds

July 17th, 2025 9:52 AM

After the Senate passed President Trump’s rescission package early Thursday morning that, among other things, clawed back federal funding for PBS and NPR, CBS Mornings teed up an interview it did with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who claimed the move “would be a tremendous tragedy.”

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PBS CEO Pops Up Hours After NPR Boss, Claims Zero Evidence of Bias

July 16th, 2025 5:21 PM

On Wednesday afternoon, it wasn’t a shock that PBS CEO Paula Kerger surfaced on CNN for an interview soaked in elitist condescension and lies, just hours after Katherine Maher of NPR did the same. Both appeared as $1 billion in government funding is on the chopping block ahead of a possible Senate vote. The worst part was at the end with Kerger claiming she doesn’t see any basis in “an…

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Defund NOW!! NPR CEO Pampered by CNN in Pants-on-Fire-Filled Interview

July 16th, 2025 1:57 PM

With $1 billion in taxpayer funding on the line as part of a rescission package the Senate could vote on late Wednesday, PBS and NPR have teamed with their liberal media allies to throw the proverbial kitchen sink at trying to maintain the farce of non-partisan, robust, and unique local programming that saves lives. That was the message Wednesday morning from NPR CEO Katherine Maher on CNN’s…

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PBS Invites Summers To Triple Down On Claim GOP Law Will 'Kill People'

July 16th, 2025 1:48 PM

As Senate Republicans hold its fate in their hands, PBS’s Amanpour and Company thought it was a good idea to welcome former Clinton Treasury Secretary and Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summers to double and triple down on his previous claim that Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill will kill over 100,000 people.