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No Dissent! PBS Airs Perennial BS on How Earth Has Only Ten Years Left

March 18th, 2025 3:40 PM

The so-called "climate emergency" is Exhibit A in the intolerance of "public" broadcasting for an opposing point of view. Either you perpetually believe we're ten years away from mass death (as PBS projected in 1990), or you cannot appear on PBS.

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PBS Suggests Third Impeachment For Trump's Immigration Policies

March 18th, 2025 1:40 PM

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez had an eventful Monday show. Within the span of two minutes, she managed to omit that a recently deported visa holder admitted to attending Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's funeral and interviewed Law Professor Kim Wehle, who suggested Trump’s immigration policies writ large should merit a third impeachment.

George Will Surprise! CPB Is Useless, Like an Appendix, So Defund It

March 17th, 2025 10:38 AM

In recent years, Washington Post columnist George Will has not been our favorite. I called him "Jennifer Rubin with shorter hair." But he still pens a conservative column from time to time, clearly upsetting left-wing Post subscribers with a Sunday column suggesting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is useless, and should be defunded.

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Brooks Lauds Schumer Folding On Shutdown: 'Country's Being Decimated'

March 15th, 2025 9:42 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks had an actual debate on Friday’s PBS News Hour. However, it was more of an inside-the-family argument about the best way for Democrats to stand up to President Donald Trump. Capehart argued that, after Senate Democrats declined to shut down the government, the party needs to grow “a spine,” while…

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Barron-Lopez: If Trump Deports Hamas Supporter, He Can Deport Anyone

March 14th, 2025 1:47 PM

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez tried to claim on Thursday that if the Trump Administration is able to successfully deport pro-Hamas Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, it can deport any legal immigrant simply for disagreeing with them.

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PBS Journo: Axing Education Dept Hurts 'Poor and People Of Color' Most

March 12th, 2025 1:44 PM

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect that will lead states to…

Column: When the Word 'Insurrectionist' Should Be Used

March 12th, 2025 5:45 AM

It would have been a dangerous drinking game during the Biden presidency to chug every time the media broadly described January 6 protesters as “insurrectionists.” That was the automatic journalistic assumption for every protester on the scene.So it’s remarkable when you consider radical leftist Mahmoud Khalil and the group he led, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).

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PBS 'Conservative' David Brooks Agrees With Capehart 61% of the Time

March 11th, 2025 3:00 PM

Every Friday, PBS News Hour devotes a segment to recapping the week's news with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart. Brooks is supposed to be the conservative half of the duo, but according to a new NewsBusters study, he agrees with Capehart 61 percent of the time.

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PBS Falsely Says There's No Evidence Arrested Student Is Pro-Hamas

March 11th, 2025 12:18 PM

As Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his part in pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests, PBS News Hour would have its viewers believe that he is just a victim of a presidential administration that doesn’t like having its opinions challenged. On Monday’s episode, William Brangham falsely claimed there’s no proof to support the allegations against him.

UNFAIR Fight: PBS, NPR Use Their Money to Lobby for More of YOUR Money

March 10th, 2025 12:40 PM

If you want to defund PBS and NPR, it’s an unfair fight. Public broadcasting uses all its own resources – including its taxpayer subsidies – to lobby for more taxpayer money. NPR station WBEZ in Chicago sent an email titled “Stand up for public media — your voice matters.” The graphic inside proclaimed “PROTECT FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: Support public media.”

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PBS Plays Dumb on Why Power-Mad Trump Is Punishing Columbia University

March 9th, 2025 4:12 PM

Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the panel of journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Never mind months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish students and the chanting of homicidal slogans in the…

FLASHBACK: Nets Praised Faltering Biden’s ‘Feisty,’ ‘Fiery’ 2024 SOTU

March 9th, 2025 10:07 AM

The liberal media had a predictably sour reaction to President Trump’s speech to Congress. Yet one year ago, these same networks used Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech to dishonestly proclaim the obviously faltering 81-year-old was brimming with energy and ready for a second term.

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Capehart Laments Lack Of 'Nuanced' Discussion On Men In Women's Sports

March 8th, 2025 9:42 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett on Friday that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast appearance with conservative Charlie Kirk, where he dissented from the party line, continued the nation’s alleged inability to have “nuanced and thoughtful” conversations about transgender people participating in women’s sports.

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Former WashPost Editor Fears Financial Scrutiny of Public Broadcasting

March 6th, 2025 5:51 PM

With the Trump administration and Congress focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget, there’s an effort underway to make sure public broadcasting ended up under the microscope. The notion that public broadcasting would be held to any form of accountability, including the possibility they broke federal law, was apparently beyond the pale for former Washington Post…