NPR Host Admits Show Censored Coverage of Common Sense COVID Proposal
15th May 2025
Well, here’s a surprise: NPR’s “On Point” podcast, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and transmitting out of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, featured, on its May 5 show, an interview with author David Zweig highly critical of the hysterical and harmful reaction by the liberal “public health” establishment to the COVID pandemic.
What’s more, around the 26-minute mark, Chakrabarti herself revealed that an NPR higher-up cut off her pitch to do a story on 2020’s Great Barrington Declaration. That brief manifesto became a target of anti-science liberal hysterics for arguing against lockdown and social distancing as “producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” An unidentified colleague told Chakrabarti, “We cannot talk about it” for fear of spreading misinformation.
The Great Barrington Declaration was coauthored by Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University (now head of the National Institutes of Health under Trump, replacing Dr. Francis Collins, who sought to undermine Bhattacharya as “fringe”). Bhattacharya was notoriously targeted for censorship by Collins and the Biden Administration for his efforts to tamp down COVID fear and hysteria — a crusade that, according to Chakrabarti, NPR joined as well.