NPR

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is bringing his long-standing Obama-polishing interview style to the early contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is the latest beneficiary, after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The primary subject was, inevitably, Donald Trump as a threat to…

Sudden respect for religion over the (previously) public airwaves? In the wake of the confrontations in left-wing Minneapolis over the shooting death by an immigration enforcement officer of protester Renee Good, who drove toward the officer after being given a lawful command to exit her vehicle, NPR is discovering the virtues of activist faith, at least when it can be turned to anti-Trump and…

Two highly anticipated cases involving transgender athletes -- i.e. biological men suing for the right to compete in women’s sports came -- before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with opinions on the cases expected by the end of June. National Public Radio’s All Things Considered covered the opening arguments on Sunday. NPR’s idea of an objective reporter? Transgender (biological female…

National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg previewed oral arguments in two Supreme Court cases involving transgender females (i.e., males) participating in female sports on NPR’s Morning Edition Tuesday. Totenberg approached the issue as if the Supreme Court started this skirmish in the “culture wars,” as opposed to the radical “gender-affirming” side that…

NPR Critic-at-Large Eric Deggans penned a pessimistic media analysis for Saturday: "2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism." That means an ominous Trumpian trend, but it's amusing how liberal bias aggressively opposing Trump is considered a "gold standard" of "fair, accurate reporting." 

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition offered a petulant rundown of the shocking and wildly successful involuntary expatriation of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from Caracas to face drug trafficking charges in America (“7 takeaways from Trump's action in Venezuela”). Senior political editor Domenico Montanaro unleashed this doozy of a double-standard for entry No. 4, sub-headed…

As you should expect, NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep is a cheerleader for his “news” network. On his Substack page came a titled “Public radio may be stronger in 2026.” He claimed "The fact-free hypothesis of NPR’s partisan critics was that NPR lost audience in the early 2020’s because it was too woke... much of the 'evidence' of bias was imaginary."

There’s nothing like a dramatic military action by President Trump to underline how much National “Public” Radio sounds like DNC Radio. Both Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep. Adam Smith were gently set up to denounce Trump, on Saturday morning and evening. 

What were President Trump’s “achievements” in 2025? The media use and abuse of this term is an important measurement of bias. Conservative wins don't get the A-word.  Achievements are programs like Obamacare, lauded as Obama’s “signature achievement.” It doesn’t matter if the Affordable Care Act ended up affordable. Capitalism is measured by its results. Socialism is measured by intentions.…

The New York Times is not your most reliable narrator on all stories about NPR: their weekday podcast The Daily runs on hundreds of NPR affiliates, which creates an obvious rooting interest for the network. On Tuesday, Times media reporter Benjamin Mullin poured on the sympathy.

2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS. As you’ll see below in our top-ten list of the most read stories, you’ll see NPR come up along with the major…

“Crime in the U.S. fell in 2025. Will the trend continue?” ran on the Christmas Eve edition of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. But after months of coverage bashing President Trump for sending troops into cities to fight crime (i.e. “Do Trump's D.C. moves echo an authoritarian playbook?”) Trump gets no credit in reporter Meg Anderson’s good-news story about an…

Wikipedia's reliability remains contentious as Big Tech elevates its content despite its editable nature and left-leaning bias. Studies reveal that Google and AI platforms frequently prioritize Wikipedia's content, often to the detriment of conservative perspectives. Wikipedia's citation disparity highlights its favor for leftist media. There is growing concern that Wikipedia’s influence…

The PBS News Hour doubled down on its advocacy for transgender surgery for minors on Thursday evening, reacting with condescension and alarm to President Trump’s move to restrict so-called “gender-affirming medical care for minors.” This time PBS paired up with its (former) taxpayer-funded outlet National Public Radio. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: "The Trump administration today took its…