On Friday’s episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump’s executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. They couldn’t actually delve into the evidence of Harvard hating Jews or the incessant…
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NewsBusters Podcast: PBS & NPR Get DEFUNDED Via Trump Executive Order
It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored…
Hours Before Trump Laid Hammer on PBS/NPR, Outlets Sponged for Change by Email
The fundraising arms of PBS and NPR were already on the defensive over challenges to their overwhelmingly biased reporting on the taxpayers’ dime. Now comes President Trump’s executive order Thursday night cutting taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR. The text of the order was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid…
Meta on Hot Seat! Mike Lee Calls Out Tech Giant, Draws Eyes to AI ‘Defamation Campaign’ Video
Meta is on the hot seat after Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) drew attention to a video that he wrote “describes in detail the ruthless and elaborate defamation campaign waged by Meta AI.” Lee responded in a Thursday X post to political commentator and podcast host Robby Starbuck’s X post announcing “a major…
CNN’s Stelter Pulls His Hair Out Over Trump’s EO Defunding PBS/NPR
Despite repeatedly calling Fox News “state TV” during President Trump’s first term (when he still had his show, so-called Reliable Sources), CNN’s Brian Stelter decried Trump’s executive order defunding the actual state-media outlets of PBS and NPR. In his appearance on Friday’s Inside Politics, Stelter argued that Trump…
Column: Is Oklahoma In Danger of ‘Satanic School’?
The Supreme Court heard arguments on April 30 on whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma named for St. Isidore the Farmer can be the first charter school with a religious foundation. It’s the latest case to alarm the media about the so-called “separation of church and state.” New…
BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order to End Tax Money for ‘Radical, Woke’ PBS and NPR
Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X. It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer…
SELF-LOVE: PBS News Hour Puts On PBS CEO for Softball Questions and Promotional Fluff
PBS doesn’t allow a debate about funding for PBS on the airwaves of PBS. Instead, you only get the pro-PBS side. On Tuesday’s News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tossed softballs at PBS CEO Paula Kerger about how wonderful they are and how defunding them is an existential threat…
CNN’s Cornish Hints at Comparing Trump To French Queen Who Was . . . Beheaded
It wasn’t as graphic as the fake bloody, severed head of Trump that Kathy Griffin infamously held up. But in her own way, CNN’s Audie Cornish lumped Trump into the same category as history’s most famous victim of the guillotine. Cornish kicked off today’s CNN This Morning by slyly slipping…
Mea Culpa? Big Tech Censors Shamed by Abortion Pill Study
Pro-lifers have been warning the public that the abortion pill hurts women for years. Here’s why Big Tech and its fact-checkers have much to answer for. A massive study published on Monday found that around 11.2% of 154,554 women underwent a “serious adverse event” after taking the abortion pill. This…