How Wikipedia Promotes NPR, PBS All While Effectively Blacklisting Right-Leaning Media
23rd April 2025
Wikipedia handles the leftist propagandists at National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) with kid gloves, all while it bars editors from citing nearly every right-leaning media source.
The online encyclopedia revealed its true colors when it rated NPR and PBS as “generally reliable” in its permissible sources list for editors, despite ample evidence of the two publicly-funded media outlets’ flagrant bias. But Wikipedia rated every single right-leaning media outlet included in the list as “blacklisted,” “deprecated,” “generally unreliable” or “no consensus.” Both NPR and PBS are partially funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and have been under the gun in Washington, D.C. due to their leftist bias and public funding.
Wikipedia assigns ratings ranging from “generally reliable” to literally “blacklisted” to determine whether and where publications can be cited on the online encyclopedia. In a previous report, MRC Free Speech America found that Wikipedia labeled 84 percent of the listed left-leaning media sources featured here as “generally reliable,” including NPR. Wikipedia then smeared 22 out of 29 right-leaning sources with negative labels, while the other seven fell under “no consensus.”