Public Broadcasting

In “NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters,” which appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Benjamin Mullin, Jack Healy, and David Chen unwittingly justified the defunding of those taxpayer-funded media outlets that conservatives have been advocating for decades.

No one should think PBS is an oasis of civility. On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, the liberal gang typically rained fire on conservatives in general and the late Charlie Kirk in particular. No one had a critical word for rhetorical extremism on the left, and there was really no focus on the killer.

National Public Radio was very concerned Saturday about angry leftists losing their jobs for gleeful posts about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, even citing McCarthyism, in “Charlie Kirk critics are being targeted online and losing jobs” by Huo Jingnan, Jude Joffe-Block, and Audrey Nguyen.

On Wednesday’s Morning Edition (hours before Charlie Kirk’s assassination), co-host Steve Inskeep conducted a puffball interview with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, allowing the Democrat to trash Trump as a horrible racist breaking all the laws.

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour expressed serious doubts that President Trump can be the leader the nation needs after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Through a combination of misrepresentations, hypocrisy, and omissions, the assembled trio of anchor Amna Nawaz, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart condemned Trump’s response to the crime.

The morning after the murder of Charlie Kirk, NPR's Morning Edition turned to Kyle Spencer, a leftist author of a 2022 book titled Raising Them Right: The Untold Story About America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement And Its Plot For Power. NPR host Michel Martin repeated the "ultraconservative" title three times. Spencer said "Charlie really positioned himself as somebody…

On PBS, Monday’s Amanpour & Co. hosted failed Georgia political candidate, and liberal media martyr Stacey Abrams to discuss her Time magazine jeremiad against the autocrat Donald Trump. The show’s introduction included a representative clip from Abrams (“We are in the midst of an authoritarian regime”) and things got no less hysterical from there.

PBS News tweeted out something unexpected from conservative Christian author Allie Beth Stuckey, author of the book Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. This was the Stuckey quote they shared: "Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies, or support destructive policies.” It came from an AP article posted on PBS.

On Monday, PBS/CNN International’s Amanpour and Company discovered that free speech rights are under attack in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, correspondent Isobel Yeung didn’t want to talk about arresting comedians for not agreeing with trans ideology. Instead, she pestered John Woodcock, Lord Walney, who helped designate the group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization,…

In the aftermath of defunding, PBS stations like WETA in Washington DC are sending out fundraising letters with the slogan "Defunded, not defeated." PBS CEO Paula Kerger made an appearance on the podcast To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes, and she was still lying to the public about the liberal bias of PBS, which we have repeatedly proven in our studies. 

Sunday’s edition of PBS News Weekend led with the anchor and his guest blaming President Trump for using social media to lead to “heightened tensions” in Chicago before his promised crackdown on crime and illegal immigration in that high-crime city (as if the high murder rate and crime rate in general wasn’t stoking tensions before). 

Anyone still confused why Republicans defunded PBS needs to look no further than a Thursday Amanpour & Company segment featuring host Christiane Amanpour and women, gender, and sexuality/African and American studies Prof. Imani Perry. Both would accuse President Trump of waging a war on knowledge as he seeks to reform the Smithsonian Institution, while Perry ironically spread…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed NPR CEO Katherine Maher to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a grieving session on the latter being defunded. According to Maher, the fate of democracy depends on NPR, and only people who seek to divide and pit Americans against each other could possibly support defunding it.

National Public Radio on Friday tried hard to pretend there were no anti-Trump, anti-Christian, or anti-Semitic motives to be found in the August 27 murder of two children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis by a male shooter who identified as “transgender.” The online headline to the radio report underlined the falsehood: “'There is no message': The search for ideological motives…