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On PBS, Glasser Gets Religion: Republicans Have 'Lost Their Souls'

July 29th, 2025 8:50 AM

On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, the Democrats around the table were furious that Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump accused Team Obama of treason in manipulating intelligence to create the Russian-collusion hoax. Susan Glasser of The New Yorker said Republicans have "lost their souls" in failing to denounce Trump for attacking Obama.

Trump Ends Harmful LGBTQ Propaganda Voice -- Will PBS Stick With Them?

July 28th, 2025 9:44 AM

The Trump administration in June ended a federal partnership with the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that purports to provide suicide-prevention support to supposed LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer-plus) children through the federally funded 988 Lifeline. Callers will now be directed to the main hotline. The Trevor Project bills itself as “the leading suicide prevention and…

PBS Hits Trump's 'War on Facts,' 'Dangerous' Impact on Free Speech

July 27th, 2025 5:29 PM

PBS host Christiane Amanpour fretted over “the state of freedom of speech in America” with reporter David Enrich, author of the anti-Trump book Murder The Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. Enrich has become a popular figure on PBS and NPR of late, warning of the Trump administration’s “chilling effect” on media. Amanpour accused Trump of…

Snobby PBS-NPR Station Manager: Conservatives 'Don't Listen or Watch'

July 26th, 2025 9:55 PM

The playbook for the PBS/NPR lobby in the defunding fight has been to send liberal journalists to talk with station managers in small communities in red states, as if that somehow represents the Eastern leftist elites that make the programming on "public" broadcasting. Politico's "West Wing Playbook" column talked to Don Dunlap, a station manager in Corpus Christi, Texas. He said people…

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PBS’s Anti-Semitism Expert: Columbia Settlement Was ‘Ransom’ to Trump

July 26th, 2025 8:34 PM

The taxpayer-defunded PBS News Hour Wednesday retained its hostility (as documented in a Media Research Center study) against the Trump administration protecting Jewish students and faculty from the Hamasniks marauding elite liberal campuses in protest of Israel’s defensive war in Gaza. Wesleyan University president Michael Roth made another News Hour appearance ridiculously…

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PBS Warns Of 'Institutional Capture' As Columbia Settles With Trump

July 26th, 2025 9:43 AM

Even by its own standards, the weekly Friday news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks was especially tone-deaf and unintelligent. The trio would have you believe that Columbia University settling with the Trump administration is both a threat to universities…

PBS Alone Takes Gabbard Seriously With Full, Flawed Take on Russiagate

July 25th, 2025 9:31 PM

While the broadcast networks mostly ignored it, Wednesday’s PBS News Hour devoted a five-and-a-half-minute segment on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s White House briefing on details of the declassification of materials related to “Russiagate,” the investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Of course, the…

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Amanpour Upset US Won’t Pay UN-Ordered Climate Reparations

July 24th, 2025 7:00 PM

On Wednesday, PBS’s Amanpour & Company featured eponymous host Christiane Amanpour interviewing and lamenting to Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Ralph Regenvanu that rich countries will ignore the United Nations's International Court of Justice ruling that rich countries must pay reparations to poor countries over climate change. 

BREAKING: CPB Gave Tax Dollars to George Soros-Backed Censorship Giant

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July 24th, 2025 1:30 PM

It’s bad enough that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been funneling millions in tax dollars to leftist propaganda mills NPR and PBS over the decades. But what if we were to tell you that the CPB funded one of America's "fact-checking" giants backed by George Soros responsible for censoring conservatives on social media platforms for years? Because that’s exactly what we’re about to…

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CBS Drags Out Far-Left NPR Affiliate to Decry Funding Cuts, Deny Bias

July 22nd, 2025 4:45 PM

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings Plus gave a spotlight to last week’s passage of a rescission package to take back $1 billion in taxpayer funding for far-left propaganda outlets NPR and PBS by commiserating with the interim news director for KZYX, the NPR affiliate in Mendocino County, California, a coastal and wooded area north of the Bay Area. Unsurprisingly, the arrogance was on display with the…

MRC President David Bozell Talks Defunding Victory with Scott Jennings

July 22nd, 2025 3:42 PM

On Friday, MRC President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show to discuss a historic victory: the House vote to defund PBS and NPR. Hosted by Jennings, CNN’s lone voice of reason and MRC’s Bulldog Award winner for “Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines,” the show spotlighted MRC’s decades-long campaign to end taxpayer funding for these far-left outlets. 

Supposedly Clueless PBS CEO Is Touting 'Unflinching News Coverage'

July 22nd, 2025 1:14 PM

Before Congress and on television, PBS CEO Paula Kerger has repeatedly pretended she has seen no evidence of liberal bias on PBS, which is like saying you were not being able to find the sun outside. But last week, Variety's Todd Spangler wrote a long leftist editorial on "Trump's War on Truth," and Kerger spoke more like someone who knew they were at war with Trump.

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NewsBusters Podcast: Our PBS/NPR Victory Lap, Leftist Bias Defunded

July 21st, 2025 10:21 PM

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

July 21st, 2025 2:01 PM

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…