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Public Broadcasting Clears Out Desks Into Tote Bags, and the 'Censored' Stephen Colbert Is Still Wailing

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Aug 01, 2025
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Reporting on the Mirror – CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  • It seems they are making this sound like a sad thing.

The rather quick announcement came out today: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting – the organization that oversees PBS and NPR, and distributes federal grants to public broadcasting affiliates and stations – announced that it will be shuttering entirely.

The word is that it will cease operations and lay off much of its staff by September 30, the end of its fiscal year. While not exactly a shocking development in light of the recent rescission package passed by Congress that stripped away federal backing, there appears to be little effort made to seek out alternative funding. What remains next is to see how extensive the stations shutting down will become as a result of this closure.

Prose & Contradiction – VARIOUS OUTLETS

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  • Rather outlandish commentary from those supposedly muted.

It has been a tiresome two weeks of the press mewling and whining about Stephen Colbert being cancelled on “The Late Show.” It has been a litany of claims that Donald Trump pressured the network to fire Colbert, and this represents a chilling of critical voices against the administration. 

This narrative runs into a few problems.

For one, no other examples of silenced critics have emerged. Also, Colbert is not being replaced, and he is staying on the air for ten more months. As a testament to this moronic talking point, it was celebrated that on Thursday’s broadcast, Colbert entertained former Vice President Kamala Harris, and her appearance was regarded as something of the show putting up the middle finger to President Trump and CBS. It seems quite the opposite of censorship, in that they were able to go ahead and deliver invectives toward those allegedly censoring them.

Legalized Press-tituition – ABC NEWS

  • The only laudable part of this is that at least they did not go with an anonymous source.

ABC News delivered a chilling item about 91 Palestinians being gunned down in Gaza. Israeli forces were said to be the attackers here. If you picked up on some skepticism from us, that is for good reason.

Does ABC News provide video of these attacks? Do they offer any photographic evidence? How about reports from journalists, or at least foreign governments or aid organizations? Nope – nope – nope – nope – and, nope.

This claim came solely and entirely from Hamas. ABC News did not even try to veil the information as coming from some internal Palestinian governing office or other group – just straight from Hamas.

So, apparently, we have abandoned the once formal journalism practice of obtaining word from multiple sources in order to confirm a story. Nah, the word of a terrorist organization with a history of delivering staged news items and other propaganda is sufficient enough for publication.

Gilded Reframe – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

  • Now, is SHE being sexist, or misogynistic?

The press continues to shame themselves with hysterics over the Sydney Sweeney ad campaign, and we are here to cover it. Yesterday, The Atlantic suggested it was somehow a sign of supremacist signaling that the right wanted to make it acceptable to admire a woman’s breasts. Today, The Wall Street Journal joins in with its fractured take on the controversy.

They feel that American Eagle Outfitters has turned its back on previous female-friendly marketing efforts, because they…um…used a female in its ad campaign.

Both Kinds of Standards – ROLLING STONE

  • Did the editors not vet to whom they turned over their editorial pages?

The press that spent most of four years telling us the Biden economy was grand has been diligent about telling us that all the positive economic news over the past six months has been bad. Recall under Biden that when complaints about grocery prices were spiking, the press tried to say these were anecdotal examples that did not represent the national condition. Uh-huh.

The latest comes from Rolling Stone, telling us how consumers are today anxious about the store spending they face. That this was written by Julie Margetta Morgan, who recently served in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Joe Bidenomics, makes it all the more precious.

Anti-Social Media – THE NEW YORK TIMES

  • Something about a Hippocratic Oath seems apt to mention here.

The Times grants us this rather unsettling proposal in its op-ed section; we should redefine the qualifications of death in order to harvest more organs for donations.

The first suggestion for this doctor – you volunteer first.