Public Broadcasting

NewsBusters Podcast: Our PBS/NPR Victory Lap, Leftist Bias Defunded
The defunding on PBS and NPR finally happened, something the MRC has been advocating for decades. MRC President David Bozell and Managing Editor Curtis Houck reflect on all the lame liberal arguments and the questionable future for these networks.

New MSNBC Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez's Greatest Misses at PBS News
Laura Barron-Lopez, perhaps the most biased reporter on the tax-funded PBS News Hour, is bolting to cable network MSNBC, a more appropriate place for her unapologetic liberal slant. Barron-Lopez joined the PBS News Hour as White House correspondent from Politico in June 2022 and quickly established herself as hostile to conservatives, especially defending the…

The Wrap's Reaction to PBS/NPR Clawbacks Confirms Lefty/Bluesky Bubble
Amid the predictable wailing over the House vote to claw back $1 billion of taxpayer funding from hopelessly biased public media outlets PBS and NPR, one news outlet was unusually bitter: The Wrap, an L.A.-based news site focused on the entertainment business, which seemed to take the cuts as a personal affront, and in the process proved it resides in a West Coast liberal bubble. (…

PBS's Frontline: Trump 'A Travesty in All of American History'
Even as the Senate was preparing to take up defunding PBS, the taxpayer-funded network was shamelessly airing another Trump-trashing Frontline documentary on Tuesday evening. The online blurb to “Trump’s Power and the Rule of Law” explained they would spend 90 minutes warning about the "high-stakes showdown" between Trump and judges trying to curb his executive powers.

Tapper Hints Colbert Canceled Because Trump Can't Take Criticism
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.

Brooks Claims PBS Is For Giving Local News To Maine
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…

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

Scott Jennings SHUTS DOWN Colbert Cancellation Mourning Session
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.

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

Huh? Schiff, Colbert Claim Defunding Public Media Disempowers Congress
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'
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.

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

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