Uh, Oh! NPR Gets Triggered Over Elon Musk — Again

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May 3rd, 2023 5:31 PM

Twitter owner Elon Musk managed to trigger the leftist, taxpayer-funded NPR — again.

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Here Are The Best & Worst Moments From The WH Correspondents' Dinner

April 30th, 2023 1:47 AM

The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is traditionally filled with out-of-touch liberal elites in the media, Hollywood & politics rubbing elbows in fancy ball gowns and tuxedos, while they thumb their nose at middle America. While that was true this year, there were some moments that enraged liberals and delighted conservatives, with emphasis on the word some. It was…

NPR Touts Dinner Comedian Roy Wood: He Wants Laughs AND Reparations

April 29th, 2023 7:18 AM

On Friday, NPR previewed the liberal comedy for the liberal journalists at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Morning Edition co-host Leila Fadel interviewed the featured comedian -- Roy Wood Jr. from The Daily Show, who cracked that if he's really hilarious, President Biden will grant all black people reparations.

NPR Uses Sob Stories, ‘Slash’ Fiction to Keep $31T Debt Train Rolling

April 27th, 2023 10:19 AM

Yet another fight in Congress over raising the “debt ceiling” or “debt limit,” to meet current spending commitments, has begun in earnest, with Republicans demanding actual spending cuts before they begin negotiations on adding still more debt. But tax-funded National Public Radio barely mentioned that intimidating figure in its coverage, instead playing into partisan Democratic sentiment,…

Did Musk’s Twitter Just Cave to Leftist Pressure on Labeling Outlets?

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April 25th, 2023 2:57 PM

Twitter 2.0 appears to be caving to leftist pressure by removing the “government-funded” labels it slapped on taxpayer-financed outlets like NPR.

 

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Here’s What You Missed from the Briefing Amid Carlson/Lemon Chaos

April 25th, 2023 2:06 PM

While media observers, Twitter, and cable news viewers were lighting their hair on fire Monday over the monumental shakeup with CNN firing Don Lemon and Fox News axing Tucker Carlson, the Biden White House held its near-daily press briefing and there were a few moments that slipped under the radar, including one about Hunter Biden.

NPR, AP Torture Language to Avoid Offending Transgender Activists

April 22nd, 2023 10:05 PM

A flurry of legislative action on transgender issues has sparked more painfully evasive language from the media over what used to be easy-to-state basic biological categories, like “male” and “female.” Check out the painfully awkward lead to Kevin Freking’s Associated Press story Thursday: "Transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male would be barred from competing on…

NPR on Film: Loves Eco-Terror, Hates Capitalism, ‘Transphobic' Rowling

April 15th, 2023 10:31 PM

National Public Radio’s ideological bias extends to its movie reviews. Fresh Air’s “critic-at-large” John Powers praised a new movie about a band of eco-terrorists fighting the energy industry: "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" review: Contrast that with the ideological contempt NPR critic Aisha Harris displayed toward a feel-good movie about how the famous “Air Jordan” sneakers…

Column: NPR Won't Hide Their Red-Hot Hatred of Republicans & Fox News

April 14th, 2023 6:07 AM

NPR left Twitter in a hilarious huff, proclaiming it wouldn't go to any platform "undermining our credibility." That's interesting, because NPR has demonstrated an incredibly aggressive interest in undermining the credibility of Fox News, trying to prevent how it balances out the liberal media.

PBS Political Team: GOP Doomed on Abortion, Racial Mistreatment in TN

April 13th, 2023 10:40 PM

PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett welcomed back the show’s political team, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of National Public Radio, for a spicy Monday evening rehash of the previous week’s fiery political happenings, through a tax-funded, Democratic prism. After a clip from Sen. Lindsey Graham warning Republicans to adopt “reasonable positions” on abortion to…

NewsBusters Podcast: NPR Leaves Twitter In a Hilarious Huff

April 12th, 2023 10:52 PM

Twitter went from tagging National Public Radio as "state-affiliated broadcasting" to "government-funded media," but NPR decided to leave Twitter in a huff because Twitter was damaging its so-called image of "editorial independence." But they sound like National Public Relations for Democrats...

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CBS's O'Donnell Bemoans NPR Leaving Twitter After Accurate Label

April 12th, 2023 9:04 PM

Hours after National Public Radio threw what NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck describes as a "hissy fit" against the Elon Musk-owned Twitter and left the platform over being accurately described as "state-affiliated media" and later "government-funded media," CBS Evening News anchor clearly seemed saddened by the left-wing outlet leaving. CBS later attempted to slime Musk's…

As NPR Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk Tweets 'Defund NPR'

April 12th, 2023 7:17 PM

For years, NewsBusters has urged Congress to "defund NPR." It doesn't mean taking away all their funding -- just the government funding. They often claim only two percent of their funding comes from government. So why not give it up? Today, Elon Musk tweeted out "Defund NPR" in the wake of NPR's arrogant proclamations about how great they are. So now we have celebrity endorsers! 

BYE!! NPR Quits Twitter Over Twitter’s (Accurate) ‘Govt.-Funded’ Label

April 12th, 2023 1:45 PM

On Wednesday morning, taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) upped the ante in its hissy fit against the Elon Musk-owned Twitter as, in light of the fact that Twitter added the “state-affiliated media” label to NPR’s account and then tweaked it to say “government-funded media,” the far-left crackpots would be quitting the social media platform because Twitter was “falsely implying that we…