NPR Story Stars Dumped USAID Staffers Trashing 'Evil' Trump Actions

February 22nd, 2025 11:00 PM

WAMU-FM, the NPR station airing news all day in D.C., has openly sided with the federal bureaucracy and against the Trump team's effort to reform government. On Friday morning, their aired a story for four and a half minutes during Morning Edition that was devoted only to frustrated staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development.  The "evil" Trump side wasn't allowed to…

NB Podcast: PBS & NPR Lose Their Minds Over Musk & His CPAC Chainsaw

February 21st, 2025 11:05 PM

Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw at CPAC, striking a pose next to Argentina’s president Javier Milei. The networks really hate Elon Musk for trying to reduce government in any way. "Public" broadcasters are incredibly anti-Musk, since they are dreading the DOGE wagon pulling up to PBS and NPR.

Column: NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump

February 21st, 2025 5:57 AM

At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations, badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.

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PBS: Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ Ban Attacks Freedom of 'Nonpartisan' AP

February 18th, 2025 11:17 AM

PBS’s regular Monday political conclave with Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith ran hotter than usual, with concerns about President Trump’s purported assault on the First Amendment fanning the fear flames, leading the panel to make ridiculous defenses of the non-partisan (!) Associated Press.

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MSNBC Bemoans Loss of Trust in 'Legitimate Newsrooms' Like Them

February 12th, 2025 7:49 PM

On Tuesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, a panel hosted by Stephanie Ruhle expressed their regret, dismay, and indignation at the implosion of public confidence in established, mainstream media outlets, such as their own. In typical fashion for them, they pinned all the blame on such favorite bogeymen as President Trump and Elon Musk, and showed no self-awareness of the…

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Joe Klein's Internet Whispers: Democrats Display a 'Vast Cluelessness'

February 11th, 2025 2:18 PM

The pundits may say Democrats are still "licking their wounds" from their 2024 defeats, but the recent Democrat meeting on February 1 focusing on how they must have a "non-binary" representative was underplayed by the media. Joe Klein used to be a prominent TV pundit and Newsweek columnist who loved Bill Clinton's more moderate style. On his Substack, he lamented the party now…

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ASMA ATTACK! NPR Reporter Rips Elon Musk as a Killer Across Networks

February 10th, 2025 12:39 PM

Over the weekend, NPR White House reporter Asma Khalid appeared on PBS, NPR, and ABC hammering away at Elon Musk as "the world's richest man" taking a hatchet to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is automatically associated with the poor, so Musk will "increase starvation rates." He's a killer.

More Reasons to Defund NPR: The Nazis Went After Transgenders, Too

February 7th, 2025 5:05 PM

This week the Media Research Center released a study, “Five Reasons to Defund ‘Public’ Broadcasting.” National Public Radio provided still another reason on Tuesday’s edition of All Things Considered, Odette Yousef, NPR’s “domestic extremism correspondent” (as in solely “right-wing” extremism) has previously filed insane stories on a host of topics in that cluster. The topic this time…

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FIVE Reasons to Defund 'Public' Broadcasting

February 5th, 2025 10:00 AM

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.

Look Out! MTG Wants DOGE Hearings on the Leftist Tilt of PBS and NPR

February 4th, 2025 11:47 AM

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.”

NewsBusters Podcast: Tweeting About 'Feeble Joe' Is 'Hateful Conduct'?

February 3rd, 2025 10:51 PM

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?

NPR Weeps Over Federal Workers Having to Go Into Work Five Days a Week

February 2nd, 2025 5:18 PM

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 Helps MSNBC's Chris Hayes Trash Trump, 'Attention Capitalism'

February 2nd, 2025 8:30 AM

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."

Column: Will Trump 'Derangement' Keep Damaging Trust in the Media?

January 31st, 2025 6:01 AM

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.