David Bozell on WMAL Sees Path Forward for Defunding PBS & NPR
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?
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.
Pelosi or Johnson? Google Fails to Hide PBS’s Favoritism
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…
PBS Warns Concerns About China Will Lead To 'Racial Suspicion Growing'
The New Yorker executive editor Michael Luo recently came out with a book chronicling the history of Chinese-Americans, and on Monday, he went on PBS’s Amanpour and Company to talk about it. During his discussion with Walter Isaacson, Luo would warn that talking about China as a threat in a foreign policy context could lead to the growth of “racial suspicion.”
LGBT-PBS Cues Up Leftist RAGE at Trump's 'Horrific' Anti-Trans Actions
It's June, so it’s natural that PBS would kick off “Pride Month” by broadcasting a completely one-sided interview condemning Trump’s “horrific” actions directed at the T in LGBT.
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Google, Wikipedia Run Cover for THIS NPR Reporting Failure
Did Google just use leftist Wikipedia to cover for news outlets that are due for a reckoning?
MRC researchers asked Google Search on Thursday whether NPR and PBS hid the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the top of the two searches, Google’s artificial intelligence weighed in with an emphatic no, citing none other than…
PBS's Amanpour: Harvard Victim of Trump McCarthyism, Watch Me and See!
President Trump’s moves against Harvard University for discrimination have spread horror among the liberal elite, including those on publicly funded television. Christiane Amanpour, host of Amanpour & Co.., talked to Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die. (Hint: He’s talking about Trump.) A full 21 minutes of the Friday show was devoted to…
FLASHBACK: Journos Hijack College Graduations to Push Liberal Agenda
From the files of the Media Research Center and NewsBusters, here are a few of the most obnoxious examples of liberal media personalities commandeering commencement ceremonies to inflict their agenda on graduates and their families.
Brooks Invokes Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin To Mark Musk's Departure From DOGE
New York Times columnist David Brooks did the not-so-clever trick of insisting he wasn’t saying what he was indeed saying on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour as he reflected back on Elon Musk’s time at DOGE by comparing him to Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin.
PBS Follows NPR and Sues Trump to Defend Its 'Independence' (Bias)!
On Friday, PBS followed NPR’s lead and sued President Trump over his executive order telling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding PBS and NPR. PBS filed suit -- along side Lakeland PBS, which operates PBS stations in Bemidji and Brainerd, Minnesota -- "to safeguard public television's editorial independence," which is code for decades of liberal bias.
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NPR Chief Tries Comedy on PBS: 'We're a Nonpartisan News Organization'
Katherine Maher, CEO of National Public Radio, continued her sympathy tour to save NPR from the Trump administration’s executive order, with a pit stop at NPR’s publicly funded cohort, PBS’s News Hour program. When gently challenged that Trump says NPR lacks viewpoint diversity, she comically claimed: "I first of all, respond by saying we're a nonpartisan news organization."
PBS News Hour Platforms Three Far-Left Democrat Primary Challengers
PBS claims that they’re just great at promoting a diversity of viewpoints, but in reality, they mostly channel the left, and sometimes the far left….and they won’t identify them as left. On Monday, the News Hour promoted three leftist Democrats running in House or Senate primaries.