NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham was interviewed by the popular Daily Wire podcast "Morning Wire" about immigration and the state of the debate over defunding PBS and NPR.
The host, Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley, began with the Geoffrey Dickens study showing a dramatic disparity in recent ABC, CBS, and NBC coverage of “Maryland father” Kilmar Abrego Garcia versus the trial of the illegal alien who raped and murdered Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin.
“The definition of news is, if it’s negative about Trump, it’s a big story. If it’s a Trump talking point, it is forgotten,” Graham said. He noted the networks can’t say they don’t cover violent crimes like rape and murder, but “It’s a matter of who is the rapist and the murderer that somehow turns into into a zero-seconds story.” He said Rachel Morin’s murder “is not just a Trump talking point, it’s an anti-Biden talking point.”
He said this is how media bias compounds upon itself. "Because is The Washington Post going to ask Sen. Van Hollen a question about this? Are any of the local media here in the DC area, the DC NPR station, [going to ask] about what he has done or has he been in contact with the Morin family?" No.
Tim found a Nexis search of NPR coverage of found no mention of Rachel Morin now, or when she was killed in 2023.
From there, Bickley asked if defunding PBS and NPR was a "healthy step for the country," and Graham noted that the MRC was there (and Brent Bozell testified before Congress) when Newt Gingrich proposed zeroing out public broadcasting when Republicans took over the House in 1995.
"It is so long overdue. It is an outrageous that conservative taxpayers should have to send money to Washington so they can be smeared as little Hitlers," Graham said. "We are long past time for the federal money to dry up for public radio and TV -- and if they want to make this outrageous liberal content, they should get more outrageous liberal donors like George Soros to pay for it."
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