The Media Research Center’s war on public broadcasting — aided greatly by the fact that the Trump administration wants to censor non-right-wing voices as much as the MRC does — continued in April:
PBS
- Jeffrey Goldberg Congratulates Himself All Over PBS (Tim Graham column)
- Look Who’s (Not) Talking Inside PBS’s Liberal ‘Washington Week’ Bubble: Conservatives
- PolitiFact Defends Its PBS Partners By Flagging MTG as ‘FALSE’ on Drag Queens
- PBS Claims Anti-Trump Protests Were About Pushing Back ‘Against The Rise Of Fascism’
- PBS Uses Stealth Biden Treasury Department Staffer to Criticize DOGE’s IRS Cuts
- PBS’s David Brooks Condemns Trump GOP: ‘Adultery, Abuse, Cruelty, Immaturity, Grift’
- PBS Hosts ‘Zionist’ to Defend Protesters, Call Trump McCarthyite Danger to Jews
- PBS’s Marx-Quoting ‘Conservative’ Urges Nationwide Strikes To Protest Trump
- PBS Marks Earth Day With ‘Environmental Justice’ Scare-Mongering
- PBS Celebrates Artistic Freedom for Cartoonist Who Drew Trump With a Swastika Baton
- Very Biased PBS Reporter Barron-Lopez Tries to Defend Law-Breaking Wisconsin Judge
- ‘PUBLIC’ TV Watch: PBS News Hour Reserves ‘Controversial’ Label for Trump and His Team
NPR
- WashPost Touts ‘Enormous Value’ of Tax-Funded ‘ALLEGEDLY Liberal’ NPR
- NPR Treats Liberal Listeners Like Kids: ‘What You’re About to Hear Is Hate Speech’
- NPR Hosts Biden Book Author: ‘Biden Was Capable.’ Was NPR Culpable in Coverup?
- NPR Airs Money Pitch from CEO: ‘We Don’t Hate Anyone In Public Media’
- NPR CEO Claims They Are ‘Foundational Infrastructure For Our Country’
- NPR Whitewashes Pro-Hamas Organizer: ‘Very Vocal Opposition to Antisemitism’
Clay Waters whined in an April 5 post that the Los Angeles Times wouldn’t adhere to the right-wing hate narrative on public broadcasting:
Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd heaped scorn on conservatives while defending the indefensible –taxpayer-funded PBS and National Public Radio – as “fair and balanced” in Wednesday’s paper, in a long column under the long title “PBS and NPR cater to all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene might believe.”
It’s easy for Hollywood journalists to look down their nose at red-state Republicans and dismiss all the evidence of left-wing tilt they brought to the CEOs of NPR and PBS.
[…]Citing local-oriented shows like “Michigan Out-of-Doors” and “Wyoming Chronicle,” he huffed, “To call public media radical because it makes room for ideas you might find objectionable is uninformed, delusional or mere performative partisan anti-wokeism.”
Again and again, the writer failed to engage on what actually transpired at the hearing, or the damning things especially from NPR’s Katherine Maher.
Waters didn’t deny that he and his fellow right-wingers are trying to defund public broadcasting because it makes room for ideas they might find objectionable.
Justine Brooke Murray touted another anti-PBS stunt she pulled during an appearance on far-right One America News:
The CEOs of PBS and NPR vehemently deny any evidence of leftist bias at their taxpayer subsidized outlets.
In fact, PBS CEO Paula Kerger took her claim a step further, insisting she’d “be very interested in seeing” the innumerable evidence documented by the Media Research Center over the span of decades.
But when I rolled into both of their headquarters to deliver our 6-foot tall tower of proof, I was immediately shooed away like a security threat.
In an interview on One America News Network, I was asked why I believe both outlets were so “afraid of accountability.”
Accepting accountability and our stack of evidence would threaten both their egos and the taxpayer gravy train that rewards them hundreds of millions of dollars each year to spew party propaganda under the guise of “objectivity.”
Murray offered no evidence that her “tower of proof” contains actual evidence and is not just a stack of blank reams of paper, nor was anybody allowed to rebut her bias during the segment.
An appearance by Tim Graham on another right-wing outlet — which the anonymous writer baselessly insists is “popular” — was touted in an April 21 post:
NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham was interviewed by the popular Daily Wire podcast “Morning Wire” about immigration and the state of the debate over defunding PBS and NPR.
[…]From there, Bickley asked if defunding PBS and NPR was a “healthy step for the country,” and Graham noted that the MRC was there (and Brent Bozell testified before Congress) when Newt Gingrich proposed zeroing out public broadcasting when Republicans took over the House in 1995.
“It is so long overdue. It is an outrageous that conservative taxpayers should have to send money to Washington so they can be smeared as little Hitlers,” Graham said. “We are long past time for the federal money to dry up for public radio and TV — and if they want to make this outrageous liberal content, they should get more outrageous liberal donors like George Soros to pay for it.”
Again, because this interview took place inside the right-wing media bubble, any dissent from Graham’s biased attacks was not allowed.
Alex Christy whined in an April 29 post that public broadcasting was defended:
CNN might be funnier than the late night comedy shows, albeit unintentionally. During CNN Newsroom’s Saturday pregame show ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, media analyst Sara Fischer claimed that freedom of the press has become increasingly politicized. Her first example was to claim that funding PBS and NPR is an “investment in the free press,” but that has now become “a political issue.”
Host Jessica Dean began the lamentations by declaring, “Everything is politicized these days. That’s kind of the world we live in right now and it was no different. There was a comedian scheduled to perform tonight. Then they canceled that. Now it’s the more, as you’re noting, kind of somber tone.”
[…]In addition to referencing the AP’s battle with the White House, Fischer also seemed to suggest that defunding NPR and PBS is an attack on their very existence, “And so, suddenly outlets that never thought that they’d have to fight for their right to exist or fight for access like the AP, you know, a decades old wire service that’s long known for providing fair, accurate and nonpartisan news to, you know, millions around the world is now being cast as a political actor. This is a very, very different environment.”
Christy offered nothing but his employer’s talking points and didn’t rebut anything anyone on CNN had to say.