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CNN, MSNBC Freak Out, Claim PBS 'Puts The Us In The U.S.'

May 3rd, 2025 2:30 PM

The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.

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CNN's Cooper: Black Trump Voters Were Influenced by 'Misinformation'

May 3rd, 2025 1:43 PM

On Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN showed a pre-recorded report highlighting liberal contributor Van Jones speaking with three black voters who switched from voting Democrat to voting for Donald Trump, but hinted that they voted that way because of "misinformation."

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John Lithgow Tells Cancel Culture Mob to Stuff It

May 3rd, 2025 1:30 PM

“Oh, heavens no!” John Lithgow’s reaction to journalists pressuring him to reconsider his part in the new “Harry Potter” series says it all.

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CBS Warns an African Pope May Disappoint LGBTQ Activists

May 3rd, 2025 11:29 AM

Ahead of next week’s papal conclave, Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News was caught in a tough situation. On one hand, being the diversity-conscious liberal show that it is, Africa correspondent Debora Patta lamented Africans are not reflected in the Vatican’s halls of power despite Catholicism growing in the area. On the other, Patta warned that an African pope would not be the pro-…

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PBS Decries 'Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution' As Trump Defunds

May 3rd, 2025 9:47 AM

Self-reflection was absent as the cast of characters that made up Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order that cut off their taxpayer money. From putting their heads in the sand on their liberal bias, to trying to make themselves free speech martyrs, Friday’s show by itself showed by Trump’s move was the correct one.

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.