Media Research Center executive Tim Graham headlined his Nov. 22 post “Stale Air! NPR Airs Hour of Leftist Shrieking About Trump’s Revenge on the Press.” Of course, all Graham is doing here is his usual right-wing shrieking at any media outlet who commits the sin of criticizing Donald Trump. Let the shrieking begin:
The most ridiculous program title at National Public Radio is the one-sided evening newscast called All Things Considered. But Fresh Air is pretty close, since it also sounds like endlessly recycled left-wing bilge that we involuntarily subsidize with our tax dollars.
On Wednesday’s Fresh Air, NPR host Terry Gross put on ex-Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron and New Yorker editor David Remnick for another 44-minute rehash of all the pompous talk about how Donald Trump hates “fact-based” journalism as it’s published by these two propaganda organs for the left.
Online, it was headlined “Veteran news editor expects Trump ‘to go after the press in every conceivable way’.” It was especially humorous when Baron complained “I would expect that he would deny funding to public radio, such as this” and would turn Voice of America into a “propaganda outlet.”
This hour of “public radio” only underlined how much NPR is a propaganda outlet against Trump and the Republican half of America. Gross began by asking “What are some of your biggest concerns about the type of retribution Trump will carry out against the news media?”
Graham is simply doing a rehash of all his pompous attacks on NPR because he wants it to be a right-wing pro-Turmp outlet, which Trump apparently deserves since it takes government money.
After Remnick made Hitler and Stalin references, Graham whined: “Remnick lives for these references. Gross pointed out he hosts The New Yorker Radio Hour, which naturally is syndicated across the country on “public radio” stations. An episode right before the election highlighted ‘Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now.‘” Graham didn’t mention that his employer does the exact same thing, enthusiastically likening anyone it doesn’t like as “digital brownshirts.” Graham continued to whine:
Baron tried to claim they didn’t “rig any election” with the Democrats, and he know there would be no follow-up on how it took the Post about two years to acknowledge the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
BARON: I do think he will use every tool in his toolbox, and there are a lot of tools. But first, I would say that there was no rigged election, and secondly, that we didn’t conspire with the Democratic Party to rig any election. And the second thing I would say is that any attack on the free press is not – it’s not just an attack on the free press. The intent is to suppress free expression overall.
This is bizarre, considering the leftist media’s fervent support for Big Tech censorship against the conservative media. But Baron kept insisting that they were the “fact-based” media and Trump hates free expression. The two journalists talked up how leftist groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists have turned their focus from reporters in danger abroad to reporters in America.
First: Graham is repeating the right-wing lie that correcting lies and misinformation online — much of which seems to come from his fellow right-wingers — is “censorship.” Second: We remember that the MRC gave a pass to Trump and his supporters for threatening journalists, and that it enthusiastically cheered Tucker Carlson’s attacks on journalists, which resulted in threats against them. We also remember that your employer spread a false conspiracy theory the election was stolen from Trump in 2020 because the non-righjt-wing media initially avoided an unsubstantiated story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. So, yes, Tim, American journalists do face dangers inside their own country — dangers you have encouraged.
When Baron pointed out that right-wing jihad against public broadcasting shows that “the objective here is to suppress free expression by anyone,” Graham didn’t dispute the accuracy of the claim; instead he whined: “Defunding government-funded radio is ‘authoritarian.’ That’s an interesting argument.” Graham will never admit that censorship of non-right-wing views is his ultimate goal.