
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ânews.â
As President Trump has stated, taxpayer funding of NPRâs and PBSâs biased content is a waste.
Here are some examples of the trash that passes for ânewsâ at NPR and PBS:
- In 2024, NPR ran a Valentineâs Day feature around âqueer animals,â in which it suggested the make-believe clownfish in Finding Nemo wouldâve been better off as a female, that âbanana slugs are hermaphrodites,â and that âsome deer are nonbinary.â
- In 2024, PBS produced a documentary making the case for reparations.
- In 2023, PBSâs Washington Week roundtable covered up Joe Bidenâs clear mental decline, with far-left âjournalistâ Jeff Goldberg claiming Biden is actually âquite acute.â
- In 2022, NPR educated the nation on the âwhole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiastsâ and âtrans-ceratops.â
- In 2021, a PBS station aired a âchildrenâs programâ that featured a drag queen named âLilâ Miss Hot Mess.â
- In 2021, NPR reported on the âcousin of diet cultureâ known as âhealthism, which is the idea that we have to be healthyâ â as if that was a bad thing.
- In 2021, NPR suggested doorway sizes are based on âlatent fatphobia.â
- In 2021, NPR lamented that âanimals deserve pronouns, too.â
- In 2022, NPR ran a feature titled âWhat âQueer Ducksâ can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom.â
- In 2020, PBS show Sesame Street partnered with CNN for a town hall aimed presenting children with a one-sided narrative to âaddress racismâ amid the Black Lives Matter riots.
- In 2020, NPR explored âthe racial origins of fat phobia.â
- In 2017, NPR ran a story titled âCannibalism: Itâs âPerfectly Natural,ââ in which an author describes eating another humanâs placenta: âIt was really the prep that made it taste good. Granted, the [husband] was a chef and so he knew how to prepare it osso bucco style and used a really nice wine I had brought. It smelled great. It didnât taste bad.â
- In 2017, PBS aired a panel devoted to what it âmean[s] to be wokeâ and âwhite privilege.â
- In 2017, PBS produced an entire movie celebrating a transgender teenagerâs so-called âchanging gender identity.â
- In 2015, NPR dedicated an entire segment to the âpopulation of anthropomorphic animal enthusiasts known as âfurries.ââ
NPR and PBS have zero tolerance for non-leftist viewpoints:
- In 2020, NPR refused to cover the explosive Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the runup to the election, baselessly claiming there were âmany, many red flagsâ and its âassertions donât amount to much.â
- NPR wrote: âWe donât want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we donât want to waste the listenersâ and readersâ time on stories that are just pure distractions.â
- When a 25-year veteran NPR reporter and editor spoke out about the networkâs refusal to report on the Hunter Biden laptop â and their obsession with liberal causes â they suspended him.
- The editor found that registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in their newsroom.
- NPR prolifically reported on the Russian collusion hoax, with the editor describing â[Adam] Schiff talking pointsâ as âthe drumbeat of NPR news reports.â
- NPR management asked its editors to avoid the term âbiological sexâ when discussing transgender issues.
- NPR CEO Katherine Maher once called President Trump âracist,â shared a photo of herself wearing a âBiden for Presidentâ campaign hat, serves on the board of a Soros-funded activist group, and described the âreverence for the truthâ as a âdistraction.â
- In 2023, a study found that congressional Republicans saw 85% negative coverage while congressional Democrats saw 54% positive coverage on PBSâs flagship news program.
- According to a 2024 study, PBS news staff used 162 variations of the term âfar-right,â but only six variations of âfar-left.â
- Media bias rating agency AllBias â which surveyed nearly 24,000 readers â found NPRâs bias aligns with âliberal, progressive or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.â
- In 2010, NPR terminated journalist Juan Williams, who said it was because he was not a âpredictable, black liberal.â
- NPR repeatedly dismissed the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab â a conclusion now deemed likely by the FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy.
- April 2020: âScientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergenceâ
- May 2020: âAs Trump Pushes Theory Of Virus Origins, Some See Parallels In Lead-Up To Iraq Warâ
- May 2021: âMany Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Natureâ
- March 2023: âVirologist says COVID origin report could make it harder to study dangerous diseasesâ
- September 2024: âNew research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. Itâs controversialâ
- A 2024 Media Research Center study found that PBSâs coverage of the Republican National Convention was 72% negative, while coverage of the Democratic National Convention was 88% positive.