Public Broadcasting

Now that Republicans have control of Congress and the White House and Trump’s “government efficiency” czars are looking hard at slicing the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), it bears repeating: “public broadcasting” is not serving the public. It serves a narrow slice of America, an audience of wealthy liberal elites.

Amanpour & Co. invited rabidly anti-Israel voice Peter Beinart to discuss his latest screed of a book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. Beinart, former editor for the once-respected liberal journal The New Republic and political analyst for the not-so-respected cable channel MSNBC and editor at the even more ridiculous Jewish Currents, made…

MSNBC host Chris Hayes has a new book out, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. The blurb: “From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society.”…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scaring the liberal media by demanding a hearing into the journalistic tilt at PBS and NPR before the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on government efficiency. Politico’s panicked headline was “NPR and PBS first target in MTG’s DOGE crosshairs.”

According to content cops at Elon Musk's X, a tweet mocking CBS News for their softball interviews with Kamala and "Feeble Joe" was tagged under their "Hateful Conduct" policy. It's mocking someone's age or disability? Or is someone just super-sensitive about mocking CBS?

A taxpayer-funded sob story about federal workers being cruelly required to return to work at (gasp!) the office every single day aired earlier this week on National Public Radio’s show Morning Edition, headlined “Trump wants federal workers back the office, meaning longer days and added expenses.” But the single example offered wasn't exactly the stuff of a…

NPR doesn't exist to promote books by Fox News hosts, but they're an easy mark for MSNBC personalities. Rachel Maddow count on it. On January 27, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep awarded seven minutes to All In host Chris Hayes to promote his new book The Sirens' Call, mourning "the assault of attention capitalism."

PBS News Hour ran full stories on the hearings for Kash Patel to head the FBI, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services. All suffered bruising and sometimes bipartisan criticism, and the coverage was deeply unfavorable to all three nominees. Gabbard perhaps got the worst of it, with tough questioning about…

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had an eventful time on Friday’s installment of PBS NewsHour. First, Capehart did his typical thing where he alleged President Trump’s recent press conference included “some of the most racist things I have ever heard come out of the White House.” Later, he said something so absurd that the usually amenable New York Times…

Now that Trump is in his second term, a few rare voices have floated the novel concept that to combat cratering trust in media, there should be attempts at balance. NPR preferred the ravings of ex-CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, who is smearing the current press corps as a pro-Trump horror movie.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened up a probe of NPR and PBS Thursday over their airing of commercial announcements. The New York Times warned of a “politicized” debate over public broadcasting. To suggest it tilts left "politicizes" it. But somehow, to tilt left is....not politicizing things?

One of the media’s worst habits is its urge to contradict everything President Donald Trump says simply because he says them. NPR had a rather comical example of this phenomena on Wednesday as it ran a headline saying Trump was wrong to say two astronauts on the International Space Station are stranded despite three previous NPR articles saying they were stranded.

The average American awards some amount of undeserved prestige to "public" TV and radio merely by the branding of "public," like it's for all the people. But PBS and NPR are not acting for the entire "public." They are taxpayer-subsidized propaganda, and they often ignore or downplay news events that they do not support. Exhibit A for Abortion: the annual March for Life, which draws…

PBS News Weekend unveiled a galling story Sunday evening under the online headline, “Study finds gender-affirming care for minors is very rare, refuting political narrative.” Taxpayer-funded "public" broadcasting is all about "refuting" conservative narratives...with money from conservative taxpayers.