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Google Shields NPR Over Station’s Botched Response to Texas Floods

July 16th, 2025 5:11 PM

On the eve of a critical Senate vote to end forced taxpayer subsidies for public radio, Google stepped in to help NPR dodge accountability after one of its Texas affiliates failed to deliver timely reporting about the devastating July 4 floods that killed at least 134 people across the state. 

NYT Editorial Board Compares Defunding NPR, PBS to ‘Defund the Police’

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July 16th, 2025 2:25 PM

The New York Times leadership actually attempted to sell readers on the dimwitted notion that stripping tax dollars from leftist public media is just as nutty as defunding police departments. This is the same newspaper that largely rationalized nixing police funding across a number of stories over the past few years.

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PBS Invites Summers To Triple Down On Claim GOP Law Will 'Kill People'

July 16th, 2025 1:48 PM

As Senate Republicans hold its fate in their hands, PBS’s Amanpour and Company thought it was a good idea to welcome former Clinton Treasury Secretary and Obama economic advisor Lawrence Summers to double and triple down on his previous claim that Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill will kill over 100,000 people.

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CBS/CNN/NBC Smear Rural America, Tie Elmo Tweets to Defunding PBS, NPR

July 15th, 2025 6:22 PM

Between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon, liberal TV networks and streaming platforms went to bat in some horribly misleading and embarrassing lengths for their comrades in bias PBS and NPR amid the expected Senate vote this week on a rescission package to claw back $1 billion in funding for the far-left outlets. Along with insulting rural Americans, the new spin included tying the Texas…

David Brooks Tribute: Gergen Was 'A Good PBS Conservative Like Me'

July 15th, 2025 10:43 AM

Friday night’s PBS News Hour tribute to former presidential adviser and former News Hour “conservative voice” David Gergen, who died July 10 at the age of 83, demonstrates how mild, center-left political personas have long been the only flavor of "conservatism" that taxpayer-funded PBS can tolerate. (And if the descriptions of Gergen reminds you of another journalist playing…

NewsBusters Podcast: No More Taxpayer-Funded Bullying of Conservatives

July 14th, 2025 10:35 PM

The debate over so-called "public" broadcasting should be focused on its fundamental unfairness toward Republicans and undisguised loathing of conservatives. PBS and NPR and their Democrat allies want this fight to be over Elmo and emergency alerts. They can't deny how flagrantly they push a leftist agenda, so they have to change the subject. 

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Pants on Fire: CBS, MSNBC Insult Rural America Defending NPR, PBS

July 14th, 2025 6:08 PM

Ahead of a likely vote this week on a rescissions package to claw back $1 billion in funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, CBS’s streaming platform and MSNBC went full doom and gloom and lied to viewers Monday, insulting their intelligence by arguing rural Americans rely on NPR and PBS as “critical” lifeline, “their only source of information,” and “emergency alerts.”

PBS Celebrates Mahmoud Khalil, Victim of Trump Free Speech 'Crackdown'

July 14th, 2025 1:01 PM

Friday’s Amanpour & Co. show on PBS celebrated Mahmoud Khalil, who led an extreme anti-Israel (and pro-Hamas) protest group at Columbia University. Amanpour asserted he was detained as part of “Trump's crackdown on free speech, immigration, and elite universities.” There is no First Amendment right to support violence and terrorist groups.

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'HUGE Transfer of Wealth': Amanpour Turns PBS Into Socialist Channel

July 13th, 2025 10:01 PM

Thursday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which appears on taxpayer-funded PBS, veered even further left than usual with a glowing interview of Mr. Socialist himself, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Host Christiane Amanpour’s set-up for the interview, which launched the show, left no mistaking where she stood on Trump’s big bill: On the hard left: "The bill ensures a huge transfer of…

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CBS’s Margaret Brennan Equates PBS, NPR Rescissions to DEATH

July 13th, 2025 6:28 PM

Today’s installment of legacy media types suggesting that PEOPLLLLE WILL DIEEEEEE as a result of Congress rescinding funding for leftwing propaganda outlets PBS and NPR features CBS’s Margaret Brennan, who in a grotesque twist finds a way to tie imagined rescission-induced deaths to the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at Butler, PA. 

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PBS News Hour Weirdly Defends Homeless Encampments in California

July 13th, 2025 6:03 PM

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour show intro set the tone on an upcoming segment on California finally taking action to stop intrusive, unsightly, and potentially dangerous homeless encampments infesting his liberal state, with co-host Amna Nawaz talking of “California`s controversial crackdown on homeless encampments” before a clip of a UCLA scholar saying “criminalizing homelessness” will…

Will GOP Senators Consider How PBS and NPR Gently Promote the DNC?

July 13th, 2025 6:25 AM

One easy way to see how NPR and PBS are taxpayer-funded Democrat Party platforms is to witness their recent interviews with the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin. Neither turned to touchy internal issues, specifically the brief career of David Hogg as a DNC leader. The questions seemed geared to this: How do we win? Will Senate Republicans consider this on the…

PBS's Sudden Respect for Limited Government, On Increased ICE Spending

July 12th, 2025 10:27 PM

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour showed more strange respect to a limited-government organization, the libertarian Cato Institute, when their views were in sympathy with the anti-deportation crusade of PBS News. White House correspondent Laura Barron–Lopez broke down the “more than $160 billion that are going to immigration enforcement and the deportation operation.”

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'It's Shameful': PBS Bemoans State Department Cuts

July 12th, 2025 9:42 AM

The cast of PBS News Hour came together on Friday to decry the “shameful” nature of that day’s layoffs at the State Department. While New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart would claim the move would negatively impact U.S. foreign policy, their reasons for doing so were not convincing.