NewsBusters Podcast: Defunding PBS/NPR Is Not a Cow Town's Nightmare

June 13th, 2025 10:35 PM

NewsBusters is taking a victory lap for the House vote to claw back funding for PBS and NPR. But The Washington Post went to my neck of Wisconsin and suggested this is bad because "other radio signals are staticky and internet service can be patchy." They'd be "poorer" without the "independent option" of NPR. That's the NPR PR.

GOP Vote to Defund CPB Skipped by ABC, NBC, NY Times, and WashPost

June 13th, 2025 2:09 PM

While conservatives at NewsBusters and elsewhere celebrate a major win as the House passed a rescission package that would claw back $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the liberal media didn’t greet that as a big deal at all.

Column: Endangered NPR Never Stops Ripping Conservatives

June 13th, 2025 3:45 AM

So the House Republicans voted to end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has repeatedly claimed, in the face of avalanches of evidence, that she has never witnessed any bias at NPR. That’s beyond ridiculous. You can find it, day after day, hour on the hour. This week’s Los Angeles rioting provided plenty of exhibits.

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NPR CEO Claims Federal Funding Needed For Safe Drinking Water

June 11th, 2025 3:00 PM

NPR CEO Katherine Maher recently traveled to London for the city’s SXSW festival because, apparently, she thinks London is the place to be when she needs to convince American lawmakers not to rescind her federal funding. While in London, Maher sat down for an interview with CNN International’s Max Foster that aired on his Monday installment of What We Know, where she insisted that NPR…

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Google’s AI Can’t Say Exactly How Much NPR/PBS Get in Taxpayer Dollars

June 11th, 2025 1:48 PM

Google may be NPR and PBS’s partners in crime, but even the tech giant’s AI chatbot Gemini can’t run cover for the leftist outlets’ taxpayer-funded shell game.

Ex-NPR Editor Uri Berliner Calls ‘BS’ on NPR’s Awful Jewish Coverage

June 8th, 2025 2:55 PM

The Thursday episode of the “Ask a Jew” podcast hosted Uri Berliner, former senior business editor at NPR, who was suspended and later resigned from the outlet for his damning critique of the insular liberal bias of taxpayer funded NPR. Hosts Yael Bar-tur and Chaya Leah Sufrin asked Berliner about how NPR covered Israel, and the resulting discussion was withering. Berliner characterized one…

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VIDEO: PBS and NPR, Versus Their Own Record of Venom and Deceit

June 6th, 2025 1:17 PM

Well, it’s finally happened: the Trump White House has sent a rescissions package to Congress containing $1.1 Billion in cuts to funding for NPR and PBS. Now House Republicans just have to pass it.

Guess Who Google Blots Out in ‘Trump Rescission’ Package Search

June 6th, 2025 12:28 PM

Google excluded right-leaning media outlets from search results about a Trump administration rescission package. MRC researchers found that Google's results favored left-leaning media such as NPR and PBS, omitting conservative sources like Fox News and The Daily Caller. MRC President David Bozell condemned Google for bias, claiming it erases conservative voices. The search results' political…

At WorldPride D.C., NPR Forwards Unfounded LGBTQ Panic Over at Trump

June 5th, 2025 10:36 PM

National Public Radio “breaking news” reporter Ayana Archie served up an example of tax-funded public media once again going beyond traditional liberal media support for gay rights and going full throttle to throw unprofessional, anti-journalistic support to the entire alphabet movement (LGBTQIA….) in an article posted to NPR on Thursday, “The LGBT community shows up for WorldPride in D.C.,…

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'They Would Suffer': Stelter Warns Of PBS And NPR Defunding

June 5th, 2025 2:20 PM

CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter joined The Situation Room on Wednesday morning to freak out over President Trump’s rescission package that asks Congress to revoke funding for PBS and NPR. According to Stelter, not only would such a move cause local affiliates to “suffer as well,” but he also hyped PEN America saying the real reason for the move was about “discouraging real news…

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David Bozell on WMAL Sees Path Forward for Defunding PBS & NPR

June 5th, 2025 11:32 AM

MRC President David Bozell joined WMAL’s "O'Connor & Co." show on  Wednesday morning to break down the latest developments in the push to stop the misuse of taxpayer dollars by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Bozell expressed optimism that defunding will happen. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Can the Republicans Finally Cut Off PBS and NPR?

June 4th, 2025 10:17 PM

On Tuesday, The Trump administration sent its rescission package to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

NPR CEO's Comedy Tour Continues: We Are 'Centrist....Nonpartisan News'

June 4th, 2025 2:01 PM

Give her credit: Chief executive Katherine Maher is not afraid to look ridiculous on her quest to save National Public Radio from the federal chopping block. On Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal’s podcast, hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza, Maher claimed "we are consistently found to be centrist in reporting....we are a nonpartisan news organization."

Pelosi or Johnson? Google Fails to Hide PBS’s Favoritism

June 4th, 2025 12:37 PM

Even Google couldn’t mask  PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage favor Nancy Pelosi or Mike Johnson?” The chatbot tried to hedge its answer, citing PBS’s purported “commitment to journalistic integrity.” But ultimately, when…