NPR

Plus, why Gavin McInnes is a baddie.

This spring, not long after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the Department of Education released a report showing that during the 2015-2016 school year there were an astounding 240 school shootings. The figure has been repeated endlessly by gun control activists and…

Psychedelic exploration for the NPR set.

Cumulus Media, the third largest terrestrial radio chain in the country, is bankrupt, and it’s making some drastic moves. Earlier this spring, it dropped Don Imus, the legendary—if now fossilized—morning host. And now there are rumors that Cumulus is looking to cut Michael Savage, one of talk…

The day after an immigrant from Uzbekistan murdered cyclists and pedestrians in New York, running them over with a rented pickup truck, NPR did an interview to highlight how such events make life uncomfortable for Muslims. They spoke with Hussein Rashid, a professor of religion at Columbia…

Public radio doesn't quite know what it wants us to think about the anti-addiction medicine Vivitrol.

Public radio doesn't quite know what it wants us to think about the anti-addiction medicine Vivitrol.

Give National Public Radio some credit: In an All Things Considered feature, reporter Martin Kaste actually interviewed some anti-leftist protesters and did not present them as crazy people. Also to NPR's credit, the story, "Trump Supporters Accuse Liberal Communities of Hostility Toward Free…

Rare is the reporter, it seems, who lets go by an opportunity to praise Britain's system of socialized medicine. And a perfect opportunity presented itself this month when the "WannaCry" computer virus seized networks worldwide.

Rare is the reporter, it seems, who lets go by an opportunity to praise Britain's system of socialized medicine. And a perfect opportunity presented itself this month when the "WannaCry" computer virus seized networks worldwide.

In late September what Vanity Fair called the "Ultimate Exit Interview" was far from ultimate—rather it fell among the first of many. Timed to coincide with the first presidential debate, before Donald Trump's lewd tape leaked or Comey's blasted letter, President Barack Obama and his favorite…

Conservative critics like to carp about the New York Times and National Public Radio being woefully out of touch with, oh, about half the country. Events over the weekend demonstrate why those criticisms, while often tedious, continue to have merit.

NPR’s “Race Card Project,” a series of stories on the topic of race and society, found another way to make us confront our own latent racism as well as the lingering racism in society this week by telling us the story of a white guy named Jamaal.

America is "less racially divided" now than it was six years ago, President Obama told NPR in an interview. The president was responding to this question, from NPR host Steve Inskeep, "Is the United States more racially divided than it was when you took office six years ago, Mr. President?"

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a cocktail party this evening at the Martha's Vineyard home of National Public Radio host and special correspondent Michele Norris, according to the White House pool report. Norris's husband, Broderick Johnson, is a lobbyist who worked…

You may have heard that last week Pope Francis said that gay Catholic priests were a-okay.

Ken Myers grew up in a conservative Christian household in Beltsville, Maryland, during the 1960s. When he was in tenth grade, two important things happened to him.

National Public Radio media enterprise is so essential, according to backers, that it requires government support. But, as its supporters always point out, in an amount equal to merely 2 percent of the NPR budget.  Which leads one to ask if the outfit couldn't find a way to spend two percent less…

“I do have concerns about spending money on public broadcasting.”

National Public Radio has a blog post about President Obama's statement this morning on the private sector--and how conservatives reacted to the president's assertion that"the private sector is doing fine." The title of the post? "GOP Dope Slaps Obama For Saying Private Sector's 'Doing Fine.'"

The successful have always been eyed with suspicion by the plain, decent old folk over at NPR, except for the once or twice a year when the alms cup comes out for a rattle or two. So it was a little astonishing to hear Garrison Keillor, the Clem Kadiddlehopper of the pubic airwaves, sing this smug…

Last Wednesday, Jay Cost was on Tom Ashbrook's NPR show On Point to discuss his new book, Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic. Here is the link to the audio, which lasts about 45 minutes.

New York Times: "New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government"

Bloomberg: "Democrats Balk at Possible Debt-Limit Deal as Deadline Looms"

The elusive distinction of most ludicrous analysis of Obama's Afghanistan speech should be awarded to NPR for its story, "Obama's Afghan Speech Echoed Lincoln's Talk." The segment was less than a minute-and-a-half, but it was a doozy. Here's the excerpt on NPR's website:

It is difficult but often advisable to resist the temptation to comment on media bias. Any rational consumer of media, let alone those with conservative leanings, knows such bias exists. To comment on every example would amount to an exercise in necro-equine sadism. There are times, however, when…

Harry Reid is deeply concerned about the House vote yesterday to defund National Public Radio. The Senate majority leader wants to know: Where will Americans in the Lower 48 hear about sled dog racing? From the Hill:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that House Republicans are going to bring a bill to defund NPR to the floor next week. Colorado representative Doug Lamborn will be the sponsor.

James O'Keefe has a new NPR video out and SPOILER ALERT: It's also really embarassing.

I should explain, at the outset, that I am agnostic on the subject of public broadcasting. It's obvious that NPR suffers from a left-wing bias—so obvious that it seems not to be noticed by NPR—but the fact is that I seldom listen to its programming except the classical music on one (WETA) of the…

NPR is the "Worst Of White Condescension"

James O'Keefe, whose undercover video forced the resignation of National Public Radio's CEO today, tells NewsMax that he's got even more compromising videos of NPR that could be released:

As a result of an undercover video of now-former executive Ron Schiller playing into anti-Semitic canards, talking about how the federally funded news station could do without government money, considering accepting a donation from a fake Islamist group, and indicating a deep disregard for…

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has just issued a statement on the NPR controversy:

So the latest video by James O'Keefe has been released. Bear in mind that there's always the matter of context when watching video stings and not all of O'Keefe's endeavors have been, uh, "winning" as one fomer sitcom actor might be inclined to say. You live by gonzo journalism, you die by gonzo…

So the latest video by James O'Keefe has been released. Bear in mind that there's always the matter of context when watching video stings and not all of O'Keefe's endeavors have been, uh, "winning" as one fomer sitcom actor might be inclined to say. You live by gonzo journalism, you die by gonzo…

According to FishbowlDC, the NPR executive responsible for firing Juan Williams has resigned:

The fight to defund NPR will continue, as Politico reports that "House Republicans failed in their attempt to force a vote on defunding NPR today in what was the first GOP-led House vote since the midterms." No worries, the GOP-led 112th Congress should be able to get the job done. Around here,…

Bill Kristol yesterday asked readers to help name the bill the GOP plans to introduce that would take away NPR's federal funding. Kristol's initial suggestion: The JUAN (Jettison Unbalanced Audio Now) Act. Here are a few more suggestions.

As this press release from the House Republican Whip’s office (see below) suggests, Republicans seem intent on defunding NPR. They presumably won’t be able to act on this until January, when they take control of the House. This gives us all time to suggest catchy names for this bill, which could be…

Late on Wednesday, October 20, David Folkenflik, the media reporter for National Public Radio, announced that NPR executives had terminated the contract of Juan Williams, who had worked for NPR for ten years, first as a reporter and for the last two years as a “news analyst.”

There are certainly bigots in the world. By no reasonable definition is Juan Williams, whose journalistic career has been capped with several books on civil rights, one of them. But last week, Williams spoke honestly about having had a thought that has occurred to many people. He confessed on…

NPR's ombudsman ombudswoman ombudsperson Alicia Shepard has now spoken about the corporation's firing of Juan Williams. Here she is dealing with her chief concern about how this all looks:

TWS contributing editor Reuel Marc Gerecht writes in the Washington Post:

NPR’s firing of Juan Williams tells you more about NPR than it does about Juan. What a stupid thing to do! You’d think the folks at NPR would be delighted: He’s a strong, mostly liberal voice on the most popular cable news channel in the country. But I suspect that was outweighed by their hatred of…

Juan Williams, now a former contract news analyst for NPR, was fired Wednesday for publicly taking a controversial position. A statement from NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said:

Vivian Schiller, the CEO of National Public Radio, publicly questioned the sanity of former NPR news analyst Juan Williams one day after dismissing the Fox News contributor for comments inconsistent with NPR’s standards. Schiller said that Williams should have kept his views between himself and…

Sarah Palin defends Juan Williams's right to speak freely: 

The sister channels PBS (television) and NPR (radio) must have radically different standards. What those are exactly isn't really clear. But we now know what is a firing offense at NPR, considering what happened to Juan Williams. As for PBS, the television station allows their employees to compare…

My Fox News Sunday colleague Juan Williams has been fired by NPR for telling an inconvenient truth.