News Hour
Be My Leftist Guest: PBS’s False Objectivity Poisons Political Debate
PBS, established in 1969, has an outdated reputation for delivering a polite, objective take on the news of the day, exemplified by its flagship evening news program, now called the PBS NewsHour. But a new Media Research Center study deflates that outdated assumption, tracking and labeling every guest that appeared on the NewsHour over a four-month period, November 2022…
Capehart Declares Parental Rights Is about 'Targeting' 'Trans Kids'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart obsessively used the words “target” and “targeting” when describing GOP efforts to advance parental rights in education on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, claiming the whole thing is just a cover for going after “trans kids.”
PBS Hypes UN Report: Take 'Drastic Steps' on Climate or 'Catastrophe'
On Monday's PBS NewsHour, the show hyped the latest U.N, report on global warming that makes dire predictions about the climate's future while pushing for dramatic new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions.
PBS Rips GOP for 'Restricting' LGBTQ Rights, Dems 'Safeguard' Rights
Tax-funded PBS NewsHour made clear where it stood on “LGBTQ” issues over two separate segments on two consecutive nights. Host Amna Nawaz introduced the Wednesday evening segment faulting the Republican governor of Tennessee for rejecting federal money for “HIV prevention": "In Tennessee, a fight has been brewing over another public health issue, HIV. It comes as several Republican-…
PBS, NPR Use Rep. Pat Schroeder’s Death to Dig at ‘Teflon’ Reagan
The press never misses a chance for a dig at conservative president Ronald Reagan, as shown by public television’s fulsome tributes to “trailblazing” former Colorado Rep. Pat Schroeder, dead at 82. Schroeder served 12 terms in the House as a prominent liberal feminist. PBS and NPR also celebrated her "sharp wit," or at least her political cracks at the expense of then-President Reagan.
PBS Never Satisfied: ‘Oscars So Male’ and Other Academy Award Gripes
Media activists who obsess over “representation” in Hollywood (think the #OscarsSoWhite hash-tag on Twitter), will never be satisfied as long as there are ways to slice the racial-gender figures of directors, actors, award nominees, and box-office results so that liberals will come away disappointed in the alleged lack of “representation” at the movies. The Oscars are a prime season to air…
PBS Whines as DC Crime Bill Trounced: GOP ‘Pounced,’ Dems ‘Blindsided'
Congress used its constitutional authority to override a Washington, D.C. local crime bill that would have reduced penalties for murder, armed robbery, and sexual assault. Lisa Desjardins, the PBS NewsHour’s congressional reporter, who generally plays it fairly straight, definitely took a side in her Wednesday evening coverage of the controversial bill, which was overturned by a heavy…
PBS Attacks Ark.Gov: GOP Trans ‘Rhetoric Leads to Real-World Violence'
PBS NewsHour host Amna Nawaz grilled former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is weighing a presidential bid for the Republican nomination, on Friday’s show. After the inevitable Trump-related queries, Nawaz peppered the genial Hutchison about recent supposedly “extreme” legislation from Arkansas about transgender and bathroom issues, while taking her own extreme stance. (This is the…
Nets Omit GOP/Dem Rebuke of D.C. Crime Bill, PBS Decries Congress
The liberal broadcast networks love to throw around the term “historic” to praise legislative actions by Democrats. But since Wednesday, the network turned a blind eye to Congressional Republicans and Democrats coming together for the first time in 30 years to slap down a local D.C. law that would go soft on crime by reducing sentences for some violent crimes, including ones for guns. But…
PBS, NPR’s Free Ads for Abortion Pills: Click Here for More Info!
Who says the liberal media is anti-business? Taxpayer-assisted PBS and National Public Radio are eager to promote at least one product: Companies that mail the pregnancy-terminating pill mifepristone across state lines to states where abortion is being made illegal, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. And a pro-life group is suing claiming the FDA wrongly approved the…
PBS: CPAC Now a Hotbed of ‘White Grievance Politics’ and ‘Anti-LGBTQ’
PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz introduced an unfriendly segment on the Conservative Political Action Conference's (CPAC) annual gathering on the Potomac. Laura Barron-Lopez’s solemnly intoned field report Friday evening was interspersed with her own opinions about the “white grievance politics” and “false belief” about teaching Critical Race Theory on display.
PBS Barely Lets Republican Speak on 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Kids
PBS NewsHour aired an 11-minute segment under the headline “Parents concerned as new state laws restrict rights of transgender children.” There were ten minutes of leftist advocacy, and 48 seconds of Republican rebuttal. Their "expert" compares Republican proposals to "genocide."
PBS: School Board Debates Over ‘Gender ID’ Increase LGBTQ Suicide Risk
Host Amna Nawaz introduced Monday evening’s PBS News Hour segment: “Teenage girls in the U.S. are experienced record high levels of violence and sadness. That is according to a recent CDC report,” leading into Stephanie Sy’s interview with Sharon Hoover of the National Center for School Mental Health. The discussion really went off the rails when Sy and Hoover managed to link “gender…
The PBS Guide to Self-Loathing White Wokery in 'Queer Life' Poetry
PBS News Weekend on Sunday featured one of its occasional “Brief but Spectacular” segments, which often smuggle in left-wing perspectives under cover of a slightly wacky (for public broadcasting) presentation. This week’s bit of woke propaganda comes in the guise of a poet of the “queer life,” Adam Falkner. Host John Yang introduced Adam Falkner as “a poet, musician, and educator. He…
