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NBC Host, NPR Reporter Argue Anti-CNN Jury Was DUMB About Journalism

January 19th, 2025 6:20 AM

After CNN was found liable for defamation, NBC host Tom Llamas brought on NPR media reporter David Folkenflik to survey the damages on Tom Llamas Now on the NBC News Now streaming channel. Llamas lamented “a jury that does not work in a newsroom, right? That does not understand how people may talk about people.” Folkenflik agreed that “you have to unpack journalism, the way it works,…

NPR: ‘Dog-Whistle’ Politics to Criticize DEI for LA Wildfire Response

January 14th, 2025 10:54 PM

The taxpayer-funded lefties at National Public Radio felt compelled to defend efforts of “DEI” (i.e. the left-wing “diversity-equity-inclusion” racket) that’s been discredited both intellectually and at the ballot box last November on Friday’s All Things Considered, in “Why right-wing influencers are blaming the California wildfires on diversity efforts,” by Lisa Hagen

NPR Relishes Using 'Criminal' and 'Convicted Felon' in Trump Coverage

January 12th, 2025 6:39 AM

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio relished describing Donald Trump with words "criminal" and "convicted" and especially a “convicted felon.” Friday’s sentencing in New York offered a golden opportunity. On Friday’s All Things Considered, anchor Juana Summers and reporter Andrea Bernstein used “convicted” five times to thrill their leftist audience. On Friday morning? Six times.…

NPR Paints HHS Trans Activist as a Victim of 'Anti-Trans Politics'

January 11th, 2025 6:30 AM

Transgender Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services under Biden,  is a biological man who makes a not-terribly convincing woman. But even after an election where such reality denial on the left was firmly rejected by voters, taxpayer-funded National Public Radio continues to play along in a very one-sided fashion as Levine pushes "gender-affirming care" for minors.

PBS, NPR Blame Fox for Marines at Capitol Riot Where ‘Seven' (?) Died

January 6th, 2025 4:58 PM

PBS News Weekend blamed Fox News and “far right” websites for the Capitol Hill riot (or as both PBS and their NPR guests insisted, “insurrection”) on a news segment Sunday evening, the eve of the fourth anniversary of that terrible day in the nation’s capital. NPR's Lauren Hodges spoke of the rioters: “They had an eagerness to see some violence or participate in it.” Which makes it…

NPR Arrives Late to CNN Defamation Story, Injects Trump for No Reason

January 6th, 2025 12:40 AM

Overly lauded NPR media reporter David Folkenflik finally discovered the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN on the eve of the start of the trial, Sunday. While trying to massage the facts in CNN’s favor, Folkenflik huffed about the venue for the trial and injected President-elect Trump into the case for no reason. He also completely omitted CNN’s embarrassing attempt to use Taliban Sharia…

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KJP Ducks This Simple Question From Fox in First WH Briefing of 2025

January 3rd, 2025 7:24 PM

The Biden White House snuck in a press briefing Friday afternoon amid the House speaker vote hullabaloo and it had the predictable tone of senioritis with networks reaching deep into their bench for correspondents and producers willing to listen to Karine Jean-Pierre stammer and stumble her way through process questions about Biden’s final days in office, Biden blocking the sale of U.S. Steel…

Elon vs. Elmo: NY Times Pits Republicans Against Sesame Street Again

January 1st, 2025 4:56 PM

One of the reasons Republicans have never mustered the gumption to defund public broadcasting is because it upsets the entire leftist media, and its budget is so relatively tiny for the political pain. On Saturday, The New York Times took seriously Elon Musk’s determination to cut the taxpayer-funded tilt.

NPR Reporters List 8 Questions They WOULD Ask Biden (or Would They?)

December 31st, 2024 2:22 PM

The National "Public" Radio website featured this curious item at the top of the home page on the last morning of 2024: "8 questions for President Biden, if he'd take them." Honk if you doubt NPR would actually ask these -- since they've had plenty of chances (between Biden and the briefing).

NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Kristof's Fake Virgin Births & NPR's Pagans

December 23rd, 2024 10:07 PM

Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.

NPR Touts 'Sequeerity' Squad Protecting Trans Folks from Trumpers

December 21st, 2024 9:00 PM

Everyone knows National “Public” Radio hates half the public, the half that voted for Donald Trump. On Wednesday’s terribly named All Things Considered, NPR promoted “Sequeerity,” an LGBT security force in Minneapolis protecting their own from the allegedly violent hatred of the Trump-loving right-wing extremists.

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Google Rigging Trump Nominee Search Results for Fourth Straight Week

December 12th, 2024 12:39 PM

Google stacked search results for Trump nominees with legacy and leftist media sources for the fourth straight week. In fact, the search giant went above and beyond to push outlets that encourage hatred of several of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices.

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Google Still After Trump! Search Manipulation Now Focused on Nominees

December 6th, 2024 10:35 AM

MRC Free Speech America has caught Google rigging search results for President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent nominees before, and the search engine is at it yet again. 

Column: Let's Curb the Kangaroo Court of Anonymous Sources

December 6th, 2024 5:51 AM

Vetting the records of Cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a nomination based on hit pieces stuffed with anonymous sources. Someone with responsibility at media outlets should insure that their hit pieces include some sources who are named. Networks who eagerly spread anonymously sourced hit pieces are also illegitimate…