NPR Cheers Hamas Campus Agitators 'Getting Closer to Their Demands?’

April 29th, 2024 11:36 AM

National Public Radio’s coverage of the anti-Israel agitators who’ve taken over progressive college campuses while spouting violent rhetoric at Jewish students has been no better than its tax-funded partner PBS. NPR’s Friday coverage flattered the protesters, suggesting they were laser-focused on concrete demands that their colleges cease financing Israel, while ignoring their support for…

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PBS Again Takes Side of Pro-Hamas Campus Agitators: Just Like Vietnam?

April 28th, 2024 4:07 PM

Thursday’s PBS NewsHour covered the hate virus spreading on progressive college campuses nationwide of agitators threatening Israel and Jewish students. Of course, that’s not how PBS saw it, painting those pro-Hamas protesters as standing in the honorable shoes of the 1960s campus rioters that changed the course of American involvement in Vietnam. PBS also took on a University of…

PBS Sympathizes With Pro-Hamas Campers at Columbia: ‘Free Speech’

April 27th, 2024 8:38 PM

Tuesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour took a deep-dive look at the anti-Jewish, pro-Hamas protesters camped out at Columbia University, with some “protesters” spewing eliminationist rhetoric at Israel and telling Jewish students to “go back to Poland.” One girl stood in front of a group of Jewish counter protesters holding a sign that read “Al Qassam’s next targets.” (Al…

Elon Musk Called Out NPR And PBS As 'State-Affiliated': They Freaked

April 27th, 2024 4:00 PM

Uri Berliner's expose of the ideological unanimity at NPR reminds the Republican half of America that they send their taxpayer dollars to Washington to have their viewpoints excluded or ridiculed as "far right" hate. Last year, Elon Musk antagonized NPR and PBS because - ready? On X, Musk had made some changes to “state-affiliated” media designations, applying the term to both of those outlets…

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PBS 'Frustrated' By Lack Of 'Nuance' On Reaction To Campus Encampments

April 27th, 2024 10:00 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart both claimed to be “frustrated” on Friday's PBS NewsHour that the encampments occurring on college campuses are not being treated with the “nuance” they deserve. They both called for the anti-Semitic among the demonstrators to be expelled, but insisted most are honest and…

NPR: Sleep Training Sacrifices Babies Well-Being on Capitalism's Altar

April 26th, 2024 9:50 PM

Greg Rosalsky of National Public Radio’s podcast “Planet Money” (which aims to explain the economy to listeners) has returned back from “lengthy parental leave” smitten by leftist social media rants, as shown in Monday’s segment “Sleep training: Life preserver for parents or "symptom of capitalism"?”

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PBS Tries To Blame Conservatism For Mass Stabbing

April 26th, 2024 1:45 PM

Thursday’s Amanpour and Company demonstrated everything wrong with public broadcasting by using hushed and solemn tones to offer up the most incendiary hot takes. This particular hot take came from feminist, gender, and sexuality studies Prof. Kate Manne and NPR’s Michel Martin as they tried to tie conservatism to the recent mass stabbing in Australia.

Top Ten Egregious Reasons to DEFUND NPR

April 25th, 2024 1:30 PM

Anyone who spends time reading about NPR on NewsBusters is going to roll their eyes when NPR executives blather about how they believe in "viewpoint diversity" and "inclusion" of important voices. Coming up with a list of ten egregious examples to advocate for separating NPR from the taxpayers is difficult, because there are many more examples than just ten. We decided to limit it to the Trump…

NPR CEO Disses 'Distraction' of Bias Complaints, 'Bad Faith' Criticism

April 24th, 2024 11:29 AM

Wall Street Journal media reporter Alexandra Bruell secured an interview with new NPR CEO Katherine Maher, and naturally, she discovered NPR doesn't want anyone focusing on the "distraction" of leftist tilt. They don't want anyone disturbing their "mission" of taking taxpayer money from Republicans and whacking them with it.

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PBS Defends 'The Unhoused' From 'Punitive' Bans on Street Camping

April 23rd, 2024 1:51 PM

Sunday’s edition of PBS News Weekend spent 13 minutes out of its allotted 25 taking the loose liberal attitude toward homelessness (or “the unhoused”) as a Supreme Court case looms. PBS found yet another liberal, an assistant public health professor at Cornell University, to make its preferred ideological case in the first homeless segment, arguing an Oregon law limiting homeless…

NPR's 'Extremism' Reporter: Trump Could Cause Violence Against Jurors

April 21st, 2024 10:54 PM

One way the leftist media want to add juice to the Trump trial is to suggest the jurors will be threatened by Trump outbursts in court or on social media. On Friday’s All Things Considered, they brought in “NPR domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef” to spread the conspiracy theory that Trump messages will lead to violence.

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PBS Pundit Pals Hail Speaker Johnson Finding 'Inner Reagan' on Ukraine

April 21st, 2024 6:23 AM

The latest, foreign-policy-facing episode of Washington Week with The Atlantic found the weekly journalistic roundtable quite comfortable with both American hard and soft power -- as long as President Biden and the Democrats hold the reins. There was a scattering of hostile labeling, with three “far right” labels foisted on Republicans, but what was most striking was the panel’s…

Thanks to One Dissenter, the Mask Drops at NPR

April 20th, 2024 4:00 PM

Without a doubt, many readers here at NewsBusters were mega-dittos fans of the late, great Rush Limbaugh. In today’s media world perhaps you listen to conservative talk radio hosts Sean Hannity or Rush’s successors Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, or Glenn Beck or Jesse Kelly. Or, indeed someone else, perhaps a local conservative host in your area.

Utterly Woke NPR Puts Trigger Warning on Declaration of Independence

April 20th, 2024 11:01 AM

The hopeless wokeness of tax-funded National Public Radio has been confirmed by NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner, who started shockwaves with his Free Press essay “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust” providing chapter and verse of how NPR had become fully in the hands of the left. One example of anti-American wokeness is the “editor’s note” NPR staff felt…