David Folkenflik
Leftist Snobs at NPR Sue Trump, Claim THEY Embody First Amendment
The “public broadcasting” elites argue with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. On Monday morning, National Public Radio filed a lawsuit claiming that President Trump’s executive order telling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to withhold funds from NPR is “a clear violation of the Constitution.” What nonsense.
Ex-NPR Anchor Says Trump Hates PBS/NPR Because He Hates 'Independence'
On Friday's episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump's executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who spent 17 years at NPR, had a theory about Trump -- he just hates "independence," anything that threatens his…
NPR Laments the Start of Palin v. NY Times Defamation Retrial
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the left-wing New York Times were back in a New York courtroom on Monday for jury selection in the retrial of the former’s defamation suit against the latter. Palin scored a retrial after a biased judge inappropriately announced that he was going to rule against her no matter what the first jury found, with jurors subsequently finding out. The…
PBS, NPR Cover Their Own Bosses, Downplay Ridiculous Bias Denial
PBS and NPR each faced the difficulty on Wednesday night of covering their own bosses taking tough questions from Republicans at the Capitol in a hearing on Wednesday. PBS actually aired a Republican citing us -- just as a "conservative media watchdog group."
NBC Host, NPR Reporter Argue Anti-CNN Jury Was DUMB About Journalism
After CNN was found liable for defamation, NBC host Tom Llamas brought on NPR media reporter David Folkenflik to survey the damages on Tom Llamas Now on the NBC News Now streaming channel. Llamas lamented “a jury that does not work in a newsroom, right? That does not understand how people may talk about people.” Folkenflik agreed that “you have to unpack journalism, the way it works,…
NPR Arrives Late to CNN Defamation Story, Injects Trump for No Reason
Overly lauded NPR media reporter David Folkenflik finally discovered the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN on the eve of the start of the trial, Sunday. While trying to massage the facts in CNN’s favor, Folkenflik huffed about the venue for the trial and injected President-elect Trump into the case for no reason. He also completely omitted CNN’s embarrassing attempt to use Taliban Sharia…
UNBURDENED? Washington Post Declares They Won't Endorse Kamala!
First came the internal freakout when the Los Angeles Times decided not to endorse their home-state Democrat Kamala Harris. Now The Washington Post has followed suit. NPR's David Folkenflik reported “Colleagues learned the news from the editorial page editor, David Shipley, at a tense meeting shortly before Lewis' announcement." They were said to be "shocked" and uniformly…
NPR Admits They Bungled Story Smearing Rich Lowry As Saying the N-Word
National Public Radio still has an ombudsman, a "Public Editor," to respond to public complaints. That's appropriate, since the public pays for NPR. Often the liberals who dominate the NPR audience complain when they feel NPR is insufficiently "progressive." So it was a little shocking when Public Editor Kelly McBride admitted on October 4 that they botched an online story attacking…
NPR Media Reporter Connects Trump Laments to 'Pogroms' Against Jews
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik appeared on Weekend Edition Saturday to discuss how “even after being debunked, fringe ideas and lies can still become major campaign themes.” That meant it was a Trump segment, and Folkenflik suggested Trump's complaints about Jewish voters suggest something "Jews have experienced over the decades and centuries, certain kinds of targeting and…
NewsBusters Podcast: George Clooney Flip-Flops on Declining Biden
Just weeks after headlining a lucrative Hollywood fundraiser for Joe Biden, movie star George Clooney wrote in The New York Times that Biden has got to go and let someone else "save democracy" from Donald Trump.
NPR's Folkenflik CHOKES on Comparison of Joe Scarborough to Hannity
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik came on Monday night's All Things Considered to talk about cable news, and it wasn't about Fox News, at least not directly. After Biden called in to Morning Joe, NPR had to contemplate that Scarborough is so deep into the Biden camp that it evokes parallels to -- oh, God forbid! -- Fox News.
NPR Treats Hunter's Verdict as Less Vital Than Alito, Secretly Taped
On taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, All Things Considered has an online listing of story order. Hunter Biden's verdict was #9! Guess what was #1: Sam Alito. “Secret audio raises new questions about Supreme Court Justice's impartiality.”
Politico Media Critic: Fox News Coverage of Trump Trial's a 'Brownout'
Politico senior media writer Jack Shafer argued on Saturday that Fox’s coverage of the Trump trial in Manhattan exposed a propaganda network -- while CNN and MSNBC going into gavel-to-gavel overdrive does not?
Column: Leftist Reporters Pretend They're Not Partisan News Squashers
The pro-Biden “media reporters” are still upset this week about the National Enquirer and how they played “catch and kill” with Trump accusers, squelching stories that might embarrass Trump. They complain about a "partisan arm" of the Trump campaign, as if liberal outlets aren't partisan outlets that omit damaging stories for Democrats.
