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NPR CEO Claims Federal Funding Needed For Safe Drinking Water
NPR CEO Katherine Maher recently traveled to London for the city’s SXSW festival because, apparently, she thinks London is the place to be when she needs to convince American lawmakers not to rescind her federal funding. While in London, Maher sat down for an interview with CNN International’s Max Foster that aired on his Monday installment of What We Know, where she insisted that NPR…

Google’s AI Can’t Say Exactly How Much NPR/PBS Get in Taxpayer Dollars
Google may be NPR and PBS’s partners in crime, but even the tech giant’s AI chatbot Gemini can’t run cover for the leftist outlets’ taxpayer-funded shell game.

Ex-NPR Editor Uri Berliner Calls ‘BS’ on NPR’s Awful Jewish Coverage
The Thursday episode of the “Ask a Jew” podcast hosted Uri Berliner, former senior business editor at NPR, who was suspended and later resigned from the outlet for his damning critique of the insular liberal bias of taxpayer funded NPR. Hosts Yael Bar-tur and Chaya Leah Sufrin asked Berliner about how NPR covered Israel, and the resulting discussion was withering. Berliner characterized one…

VIDEO: PBS and NPR, Versus Their Own Record of Venom and Deceit
Well, it’s finally happened: the Trump White House has sent a rescissions package to Congress containing $1.1 Billion in cuts to funding for NPR and PBS. Now House Republicans just have to pass it.

Guess Who Google Blots Out in ‘Trump Rescission’ Package Search
Google excluded right-leaning media outlets from search results about a Trump administration rescission package. MRC researchers found that Google's results favored left-leaning media such as NPR and PBS, omitting conservative sources like Fox News and The Daily Caller. MRC President David Bozell condemned Google for bias, claiming it erases conservative voices. The search results' political…

At WorldPride D.C., NPR Forwards Unfounded LGBTQ Panic Over at Trump
National Public Radio “breaking news” reporter Ayana Archie served up an example of tax-funded public media once again going beyond traditional liberal media support for gay rights and going full throttle to throw unprofessional, anti-journalistic support to the entire alphabet movement (LGBTQIA….) in an article posted to NPR on Thursday, “The LGBT community shows up for WorldPride in D.C.,…

'They Would Suffer': Stelter Warns Of PBS And NPR Defunding
CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter joined The Situation Room on Wednesday morning to freak out over President Trump’s rescission package that asks Congress to revoke funding for PBS and NPR. According to Stelter, not only would such a move cause local affiliates to “suffer as well,” but he also hyped PEN America saying the real reason for the move was about “discouraging real news…

David Bozell on WMAL Sees Path Forward for Defunding PBS & NPR
MRC President David Bozell joined WMAL’s "O'Connor & Co." show on Wednesday morning to break down the latest developments in the push to stop the misuse of taxpayer dollars by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Bozell expressed optimism that defunding will happen.

NewsBusters Podcast: Can the Republicans Finally Cut Off PBS and NPR?
On Tuesday, The Trump administration sent its rescission package to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

NPR CEO's Comedy Tour Continues: We Are 'Centrist....Nonpartisan News'
Give her credit: Chief executive Katherine Maher is not afraid to look ridiculous on her quest to save National Public Radio from the federal chopping block. On Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal’s podcast, hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza, Maher claimed "we are consistently found to be centrist in reporting....we are a nonpartisan news organization."

Pelosi or Johnson? Google Fails to Hide PBS’s Favoritism
Even Google couldn’t mask PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage favor Nancy Pelosi or Mike Johnson?” The chatbot tried to hedge its answer, citing PBS’s purported “commitment to journalistic integrity.” But ultimately, when…

Google, Wikipedia Run Cover for THIS NPR Reporting Failure
Did Google just use leftist Wikipedia to cover for news outlets that are due for a reckoning?
MRC researchers asked Google Search on Thursday whether NPR and PBS hid the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the top of the two searches, Google’s artificial intelligence weighed in with an emphatic no, citing none other than…

SHOCKER: Ex-Trump Aide Dares to Trash NPR's Leftist Bias...ON NPR!
If NPR truly achieved fairness and balance on air, it would include conservatives trashing NPR for making America worse. This actually happened for a minute this week on the NPR show Left Right and Center, where ex-Trump spokesman Mike Dubke trashed NPR and ProPublica for undermining public confidence in the Supreme Court.

HA! NPR Got $1.9M Grant to Try Objectivity, Add ‘Diverse Viewpoints’
Last October, National Public Radio (NPR) was awarded a $1.9 million grant to make “editorial enhancements” – such as improving its objectivity – but, seven months later, the leftist bias of the taxpayer-funded public radio content organization rages on.