NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner, who penned a bombshell expose on the woke one-sidedness of the "public" radio network's news product, knocked new NPR CEO Katherine Maher for failing to show for Wednesday's House hearing on the leftist bias of her new employer. She claimed she had a Board of Directors meeting all day. Instead, Maher submitted written testimony NPR is “bringing trusted, reliable, independent news and information of the highest editorial standards” to tens of millions of...
NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner, who penned a bombshell expose on the woke one-sidedness of the "public" radio network's news product, knocked new NPR CEO Katherine Maher for failing to show for Wednesday's House hearing on the leftist bias of her new employer. She claimed she had a Board of Directors meeting all day. Instead, Maher submitted written testimony NPR is “bringing trusted, reliable, independent news and information of the highest editorial standards” to tens of millions of...
Punk rock icon and riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna—frontwoman of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and The Julie Ruin—sits down with NPR's Ann Marie Baldonado to discuss her recent memoir, her music, and her life. Highlights include her discussing her position as a leader in the feminist punk movement, her influence on how women in the scene are treated, her life as a mother (which she had previously been very private about), and her friendship with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain when they were just punks...
The chairperson of the National Public Radio (NPR) has gone missing.
It was an honor and a privilege to testify before Congress on the bias at National Public Radio. It was my second turn. In 1999, I testified about the bias at PBS. Nothing has changed much in the overall tilt of public broadcasting, even if it's grown more intense with social media and the Trump phenomenon. I collated examples of NPR bias by using the NPR topic tag on NewsBusters -- remember you can isolate individual networks or journalists or politicians to evaluate the media's performance. ...
It was an honor and a privilege to testify before Congress on the bias at National Public Radio. It was my second turn. In 1999, I testified about the bias at PBS. Nothing has changed much in the overall tilt of public broadcasting, even if it's grown more intense with social media and the Trump phenomenon. I collated examples of NPR bias by using the NPR topic tag on NewsBusters -- remember you can isolate individual networks or journalists or politicians to evaluate the media's performance. ...
With NPR in the news, questions circulated about what the network wanted to do and what would be helpful, said Editor in Chief Edith Chapin.
Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad PeopleFor nearly two weeks, an esoteric debate has raged on X, formerly Twitter: could users concerned about privacy and security trust the messaging app Signal, or was the Telegram platform a better alternative? X’s chatbot, Grok AI, described the trending moment as “Telegram v Signal: a crypto clash”.Signal is an app for sending end-to-end-encrypted messages...
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(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento musician Christian Gates, who performs with his band as The Philharmonik, has won NPR's Tiny Desk Contest, a competition for independent musicians. Almost 7,000 artists submitted their individual performances to the competition, which is named after Tiny Desk Concerts, the long-running video series where famous and independent artists perform for small crowds []
Cruz had written to CPB's CEO to “express deep concern" about what he called NPR's "departure from its stated mission.”
Congress should eliminate or change the rules for taxpayer funding to National Public Radio because it reports news with a significant liberal bias, experts told the House on Wednesday.