Public Broadcasting

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

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

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.

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

PBS Host: I Prepared For US Visit 'As If I Was Going to North Korea'
CNN/PBS anchor and self-styled journalist Christiane Amanpour recently gave a wild, anti-Trump commencement speech at Harvard where she invoked everything from 1984 to Benito Mussolini, but that may not have been the wildest part of her recent trip to America. On her Tuesday podcast installment of The Ex Files—so named because she co-hosts it with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin—…

Top 10 Atrociously Uncivilized Utterances from PBS and NPR Under Trump
Now that Congress is set to consider President Trump’s request to rescind funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, let’s make a little list of the worst hot takes coming from supposedly civil PBS and NPR since Donald Trump became a powerful force in politics in 2016.

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.

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…

SHOCKER: Ex-Trump Aide Dares to Trash NPR's Leftist Bias...ON NPR!
If NPR truly achieved fairness and balance on air, it would include conservatives trashing NPR for making America worse. This actually happened for a minute this week on the NPR show Left Right and Center, where ex-Trump spokesman Mike Dubke trashed NPR and ProPublica for undermining public confidence in the Supreme Court.

HA! NPR Got $1.9M Grant to Try Objectivity, Add ‘Diverse Viewpoints’
Last October, National Public Radio (NPR) was awarded a $1.9 million grant to make “editorial enhancements” – such as improving its objectivity – but, seven months later, the leftist bias of the taxpayer-funded public radio content organization rages on.

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.

NewsBusters Podcast: 'The View' Hails NPR's Totenberg, Queen of Leaks
As NPR faces the prospect of being defunded by conservatives, ABC's The View marked Jewish American Heritage Month by honoring former NPR anchor Susan Stamberg and NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, touted as the 'Queen of Leaks,' meaning leaks from Democrats seeking to damage Republicans.

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.