NewsBusters Podcast: George Clooney Flip-Flops on Declining Biden

July 10th, 2024 10:41 PM

Just weeks after headlining a lucrative Hollywood fundraiser for Joe Biden, movie star George Clooney wrote in The New York Times that Biden has got to go and let someone else "save democracy" from Donald Trump.

2025 Project Offers Blueprint Toward Federal Defunding of PBS, NPR

July 10th, 2024 10:40 AM

The Heritage Foundation’s attention-getting Project 2025 initiative includes a blueprint of limited-government policy proposals for limited government, the 900-page “2025 Mandate for Leadership.” Among those proposals for the next president to peruse was a call to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds the liberal forums PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) and National…

NPR's Folkenflik CHOKES on Comparison of Joe Scarborough to Hannity

July 9th, 2024 6:37 AM

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik came on Monday night's All Things Considered to talk about cable news, and it wasn't about Fox News, at least not directly. After Biden called in to Morning Joe, NPR had to contemplate that Scarborough is so deep into the Biden camp that it evokes parallels to -- oh, God forbid! -- Fox News. 

NPR Reporter Rips Trump Over Hunter: 'Heads I Win, Tails You Cheated'

June 16th, 2024 6:52 AM

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio wasn't hiding its partisan stripes on the day of the guilty verdicts for Hunter Biden. On The NPR Politics Podcast, NPR senior political correspondent Mara Liasson said there was "no evidence" of Hunter and the Bidens taking millions from foreign influence-peddling and said with Donald Trump, "all criticism is confession" when he complains about a…

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NPR Treats Hunter's Verdict as Less Vital Than Alito, Secretly Taped

June 13th, 2024 7:57 AM

On taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, All Things Considered has an online listing of story order. Hunter Biden's verdict was #9! Guess what was #1: Sam Alito. “Secret audio raises new questions about Supreme Court Justice's impartiality.”

Column: Smearing Alito and Thomas as Racist Insurrectionists

May 31st, 2024 7:08 AM

It’s hard to believe, but our “news” media think Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife hanging a flag upside-down outside their home for a few days is a much more serious matter than an attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. That story was quickly squashed. Start with taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, which never managed to produce a single feature story on the…

MRC Backs Religious Lawsuit Against NPR-Favoring Gov’t Rate Scheme

May 14th, 2024 11:50 AM

The Media Research Center is calling on the federal government to stop discriminating against religious broadcasting companies and right-leaning talk radio.

NPR Loves Far-Left Tik-Tok Effort to Punish Celebs For SILENCE on Gaza

May 12th, 2024 10:10 PM

Chloe Veltman, a correspondent on National Public Radio’s “Culture Desk,” is still guarding the far-left ramparts of U.S. culture for NPR with Saturday’s “The Met Gala has fueled backlash against stars who are silent about the Gaza conflict.” She demonstrated, as if any more evidence was needed, the tax-supported network’s rigid adherence to a left-wing world view that offends at least half…

Ex-NPR Editor Uri Berliner Mocks New NPR CEO Skipping House Hearing

May 12th, 2024 6:06 AM

NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner, who penned a bombshell expose on the woke one-sidedness of the "public" radio network's news product, knocked new NPR CEO Katherine Maher for failing to show for Wednesday's House hearing on the leftist bias of her new employer. “Why isn’t she there? Is she the right person for the job at this time?” he asked.

NPR Hearing: Our NewsBusters Download for the Congressional Record

May 11th, 2024 6:26 PM

An opening statement to Congress is usually longer to read than the give minutes that witnesses are granted. So if you want to see the whole statement on National Public Radio bias that I offered the House for the Wednesday hearing, it's included here. 

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MRC's Tim Graham: NPR's CEO Should Be Afraid of Us and Our Evidence

May 9th, 2024 2:00 PM

After his boat-rocking testimony before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee- on the leftist tilt of National Public Radio on Wednesday, NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham appeared on The Bottom Line with Dagen & Duffy on Fox Business. 

NewsBusters Podcast: A Fun Day on Capitol Hill Truth-Telling About NPR

May 8th, 2024 9:39 PM

The House Republicans on the Energy & Commerce Committee invited me to testify about allegations of bias at National Public Radio. How did it go? What was it like? Is there any hope that NPR will change its biased ways? Don't be wildly optimistic.

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Here Are the Best & Worst Parts of the NPR Hearing with MRC’s Graham

May 8th, 2024 5:45 PM

On Wednesday, the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations during a hearing on the decades-long liberal boondoggle that is National Public Radio (NPR). Not surprisingly, he came armed with examples of their virulent bias and hate for conservatives.

Free Speech Alliance Members Applaud House Hearing on Tilt at NPR

May 7th, 2024 5:20 PM

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight Subcommittee is holding a hearing on Wednesday morning to address the political tilt of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio, Members of the MRC-led Free Speech Alliance sent a letter to committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) applauding the hearing and insisting NPR should not be rewarded "for its unlawful behavior and anti-…