CNN ‘media reporter’ and resident potato Brian Stelter is defending PBS and NPR, saying that they’re ‘simply covering the news.’
Conservatives have been calling for the defunding of both outlets for years, correctly suggesting that these outlets take tax dollars yet provide incredibly biased coverage which always takes the leftist position on issues, frequently criticizing anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders.
Now that it looks like Republicans might finally pull taxpayer funding for both outlets, Stelter is running to their rescue, laughably trying to paint them as honest news sources.
NewsBusters reported:
For the Tax Day edition of CNN’s Inside Politics on Tuesday, media correspondent Brian Stelter joined host Dana Bash to allege that President Trump wants to defund PBS and NPR for “simply covering the news.” If Stelter really believes that then he has a funny definition of what is newsworthy…
She then asked, “Brian, just real quick, what is the White House saying about not just PBS and NPR, but about its broader fights with media organizations, including the AP, that we were talking about before the break?”
Stelter began by explain, “When it comes to the White House’s framing of this, it’s about taking on wokeism and liberal bias. Here’s a part of the quote from the White House website. They’ve listed off what they believe are examples of partisan bias at NPR and PBS, saying, quote, ‘for years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing NPR and PBS, which spread radical woke propaganda disguised as news.’”
However, Stelter wasn’t buying it, “Some of the examples on the list on the White House website are examples of NPR and PBS simply covering the news, for example, about transgender Americans. So, that list very much about the president’s priorities, trying to push back on DEI. More broadly, Dana, you refer to the AP. We see the FCC under pressure. We see signs of authoritarianism all around. And yet networks like CBS just keep reporting the news. That’s true as well, Dana, at PBS and NPR.”
Here’s the clip:
Brian Stelter fearmongers “it would also be, in many cases, Republican constituents that would suffer” from defunding PBS and NPR. He also claims “Some of the examples [of liberal bias] on the list on the White House website are examples of NPR and PBS simply covering the news,… pic.twitter.com/DjSb07mYBT
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 15, 2025
People like Stelter believe the progressive position on anything is normal and standard. Taking conservative positions into consideration is considered abnormal by these people.