“If Uri Berliner obviously tried to make the point that media bias became a bigger problem when Donald Trump ran for president. We are here to tell you this has been a problem for a very long time,” MRC’s NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham told members of congress on Wednesday.
“NPR legal reporter Nina Totenberg. Destroyed the Douglas Ginsburg nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987. Then she tried again with Clarence Thomas in 1991,” Graham told members of the Energy and Commerce committee Hearing on ‘Examining Accusations Of Ideological Bias At NPR, A Taxpayer Funded News Entity.’
“NPR energetically channeled the accusers of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. And when a man arrived in an Uber on Kavanaugh’s Street two years ago with weapons and plans to assassinate Kavanaugh, NPR failed to file a single feature story on it. Nina Totenberg could not be found,” Graham continued.
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“NPR is supposed source of civility. Didn't demonstrate they cared one bit about this potential political violence. But in March, between Morning Edition and Fresh Air. Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, was granted an hour of taxpayer funded airtime to reproduce her unproven charges of teenage sexual assault.
Now, most of us what we remember best, as has been mentioned, the exhibit 'A' here of NPR's biases, the New York Post series on Hunter Biden's laptop in October of 2020. Most of the so-called mainstream media tried to dismiss this story falsely as Russian disinformation, but NPR stood out. NPR's so-called ‘public editor’ Kelly McBride quoted Terrence Samuel, NPR's managing editor for news. He said, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Graham’s complete opening statements before the committee can be seen in the video above.
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.@TimJGraham: “There’s no one inside the NPR newsroom as far as we can tell, maybe it was Uri Berliner, that could stop NPR from going off the rails.” pic.twitter.com/QXTG3ZtCQG
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