NewsBusters Podcast: PBS & NPR Get DEFUNDED Via Trump Executive Order

May 2nd, 2025 6:59 PM

It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored media like PBS and NPR. And since the EO was such a major event, usual host Tim Graham…

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CNN’s Stelter Pulls His Hair Out Over Trump's EO Defunding PBS/NPR

May 2nd, 2025 4:01 PM

Despite repeatedly calling Fox News “state TV” during President Trump’s first term (when he still had his show, so-called Reliable Sources), CNN’s Brian Stelter decried Trump’s executive order defunding the actual state-media outlets of PBS and NPR. In his appearance on Friday’s Inside Politics, Stelter argued that Trump didn’t have the authority to strip funding but he…

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Former NPR CEO: Ceasing Taxpayer Support Is 'Attacking a Free Press'

May 2nd, 2025 2:37 PM

Former scandal-plagued NPR CEO Vivian Schiller joined CNN News Central guest host Erica Hill on Friday to freak out over President Donald Trump’s Thursday executive order that ceased taxpayer money from going to NPR and PBS. According to Schiller, the move is just another example of Trump “attacking a free press” for reporting on things he does not like.

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Kinzinger Warns Trump May Target Him, Defends Arrested Judge

May 2nd, 2025 1:35 PM

Former Republican congressman-turned-Democrat-endorsing CNN talking head Adam Kinzinger joined former Today co-host and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on her Next Question podcast to discuss President Donald Trump. During their interview, Kinzinger would lob off Nazi comparisons, bizarre hypotheticals, and long for a version of the pre-Trump good old days that…

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POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

May 2nd, 2025 1:11 PM

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

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ABC, CBS Morning Shows Skip Trump EO to Defund Far-Left Pals NPR, PBS

May 2nd, 2025 1:09 PM

Late Thursday night, President Trump moved via executive order to defund far-left networks National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS on the TV side, ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cease direct and indirect taxpayer funding in addition to government agencies ceasing federal grants. A move decades in the making, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings were…

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Kimmel, Pritzker Claim GOP Knows Lincoln Would Be a Democrat Today

May 2nd, 2025 10:10 AM

Over the next couple of years, the late night comedy shows will become a stomping ground for 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls and on Thursday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel helped kick start that process by welcoming Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to the show. Together the two would implicitly accuse Republicans of racism by claiming they “know full well” Abraham Lincoln would be a Democrat today and…

BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order to End Tax Money for PBS, NPR

May 2nd, 2025 5:35 AM

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the “Rapid Response 47” account on X. It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news…

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DEPRESSING: CBS Report Weirdly Promotes Childlessness

May 2nd, 2025 1:28 AM

Tonight’s CBS Evening News gave viewers something beyond the normal network fare: garden-variety Malthusianism couched in equal parts brave self-determination and concern for others. And it was quite disconcerting to view.

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NBC Visits Vietnam for Parade Marking 50 Years Since Fall of Saigon

May 1st, 2025 6:42 PM

Days after its sister newscast NBC Nightly News bemoaned tariffs hitting Chinese slave labor-linked shopping apps Temu and Shein, NBC’s Today sent Beijing-based correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer to gallivant around Vietnam for the communist regime’s propaganda parade marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a shameful scar on the country that’d be repeated…

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CNN's Weir RIPS Trump 'Assault on Science,' Earth Is 'Burning Theater'

May 1st, 2025 6:04 PM

On Tuesday afternoon, CNN climate correspondent Bill Weir declared that the Donald Trump administration is in an "all-out assault on science," and compared global warming to a burning theater that the administration is forcing people to stay inside.

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NBC Sides With Communist China Shopping Apps, Bemoans Tariffs

May 1st, 2025 6:01 PM

Monday’s NBC Nightly News leapt into bed with the Chinese Communist Party in its trade war versus President Trump, openly griping about the price increases at Chinese-owned shopping apps Temu and Shein that have spent years dumping wildly cheap clothes and goods into the U.S. economy. Senior business correspondent Christine Romans even went to an actual communist China app — TikTok —…

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CBS’s King After Co-Host’s Noem Interview: Deportations Are ‘Scaring’

May 1st, 2025 3:56 PM

After having taped on Monday and a small excerpt shown Tuesday about two illegal immigrants being the alleged suspects in her purse having been stolen, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings finally unspooled co-host Tony Dokoupil’s interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and, while the interview itself wasn’t as hostile as, say, ABC’s Terry Moran with President Trump, it had plenty…

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ABC News Host Suggests Trump RIGGED 2024 Presidential Election

May 1st, 2025 2:36 PM

Just over a year ago, in April 2024, ABC News’s The View announced that they had “stopped asking” President Trump to be on the show and said they had banned election deniers. But what if the moderator of the show was an election denier? During Thursday’s opening segment, Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Trump had rigged the 2024 presidential election.