Media Bias Debate
NPR CEO Claims They Are 'Foundational Infrastructure For Our Country'
NPR CEO Katherine Maher traveled over to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Tuesday to ring the alarm bells over what could happen should NPR lose its federal money. Maher painted a nightmarish scenario where people go without news, Sesame Street gets shut down, and political polarization increases because, according to her, public media is the “foundational infrastructure…
LOL: CNN Claims Funding PBS, NPR is an 'Investment in the Free Press'
CNN might be funnier than the late night comedy shows, albeit unintentionally. During CNN Newsroom’s Saturday pregame show ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, media analyst Sara Fischer claimed that freedom of the press has become increasingly politicized. Her first example was to claim that funding PBS and NPR is an “investment in the free press,” but that has now become…
Lacking Self-Awareness, Ruhle Blames Trump For Lack Of Trust In Media
Last Thursday, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle met up with actor Rainn Wilson of The Office fame on his Soul Bloom podcast to discuss, among other things, the lack of trust in the news media. According to Ruhle, history began when Donald Trump decided to enter politics because she argued that he and his allies have spent their time trying to discredit the media in their attempt to…
NPR Airs Money Pitch from CEO: 'We Don't Hate Anyone In Public Media'
Wednesday night sounded like "Protect My Public Media" night on NPR and PBS. NPR's All Things Considered put on their CEO Katherine Maher for what was basically seven-minute pledge drive for federal funding. She unveiled another unintentional laugh line. Asked about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene saying they'd have to "hate us on your own dime," Maher claimed "We don't hate anyone in…
PBS News Segment Defends Taxpayer Funding, Dismisses Bias Criticism!
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Trump administration’s efforts to cut taxpayer funding for PBS and National Public Radio. PBS didn’t present its critics beyond generalities, while anchor Amna Nawaz and reporter William Brangham took the opportunity to lobby for themselves. Anchor Amna Nawaz: As we have been reporting, the Trump administration wants to cut the federal funds that…
Stelter: Trump Wants To Defund NPR, PBS For 'Simply Covering The News'
For the Tax Day edition of CNN’s Inside Politics on Tuesday, media correspondent Brian Stelter joined host Dana Bash to allege that President Trump wants to defund PBS and NPR for “simply covering the news.” If Stelter really believes that then he has a funny definition of what is newsworthy.
Todd Tells: Media Feared 'Helping Trump if They Diminished Biden’
Forty-five minutes into Wednesday’s edition of the podcast Piers Morgan Uncensored, former NBC News correspondent Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd made a splash by drawing the curtain back a little on how the mainstream press concealed President Biden’s mental decline because of fear of being seen by their colleagues as helping Trump by hurting Biden (how did that work out…
Cornish Surprisingly Praises Rubio's 'Common Sense' On Student Visas
On Friday's episode of CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish surprisingly praises Marco Rubio's take on revoking student visas as "common sense." But Cornish once again assembles an unbalanced panel, bereft of any Trump-supporting Republican.
Nagourney Laments on PBS: People 'Less Likely to Trust' NY Times Now
Firing Line host Margaret Hoover conducted a panel at the USC Center for the Political Future, taped January 30 and aired Friday as a regular episode of the long-running PBS series originated by seminal conservative William F. Buckley. The episode was advertised as “The challenges for journalism in the age of Trump.” New York Times national political reporter Adam Nagourney…
Trump Ag Secretary Laughs! Jake Tapper Insists: 'I'm Not On The Left'
On State of the Union, when Secretary of Agriculture tells host Jake Tapper that "everyone on your side, the left" is freaking out over the Trump tariffs, Tapper insists, "I'm not on the left." Oh really?
LA Times: PBS Is 'Fair and Balanced,' Despite What Conservatives Say
Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd heaped scorn on conservatives while defending the indefensible –taxpayer-funded PBS and National Public Radio – as “fair and balanced” in Wednesday’s paper, in a long column under the long title “PBS and NPR cater to all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene might believe.”
After Devastating DOGE Hearing, PBS Claims the RIGHT Dominates Media
If PBS felt any concern about the hit its reputation for balance took at Wednesday’s devastating DOGE hearings, Thursday’s PBS News Hour didn’t show it. That episode took advantage of a series installed after Donald Trump won a second term, the pompously titled “On Democracy,” to suggest Project 2025 was a threat to democracy. Worse, PBS used that “On Democracy” rubric to enshrine a…
On PBS, Marcus Accuses Bezos Of Trying 'To Limit Dissent' At WashPost
With Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart away, his former colleague Ruth Marcus stepped up to pinch-hit for him on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour. At the end of the discussion with New York Times columnist David Brooks, Marcus claimed the reason she left the Post is because owner Jeff Bezos is trying “to limit dissent” at the paper despite…
Gaslighting: PBS Tries to Refute Bias Claims Before House Testimony
Before Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the heads of PBS and NPR in front of the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE), PBS’s flagship news show News Hour offered up some gaslighting on Tuesday evening in defense of the program’s political objectivity and balance -- a laughable proposition to anyone who has watched an episode.
