NewsBusters Podcast: Quiet PBS Rage and Dizzying Debt-Limit Spin
How do House Republicans negotiate on a debt ceiling when the media so blatantly favor the other party? Our research guru Rich Noyes has been digging into months of evening news coverage of the Republicans and Democrats on the debt-limit debate, and on how the two parties are portrayed on taxpayer-funded PBS.
PBS Asks Abrams How She Can Be a Novelist While Saving Democracy
About a week after a Columbia commencement address where she warned journalism graduates not to equate objectivity with neutrality, but with facts and truth, PBS Amanpour and Company host Christiane Amanpour aired a previously recorded interview with election denier Stacey Abrams on Tuesday how she is able to put so much energy saving “the democratic process.”
On PBS, WashPost Columnist Cries Musk Ended Era of 'Objective' Twitter
PBS is an echo chamber for arrogant liberals who think they should manage everyone's information. PBS NewsHour hosted a conversation with Washington Post columnist Philip Bump where they could lament that under Elon Musk, "objective" journalists are no longer given the "verification" of the blue check. As if they were objective, especially on Twitter?
PBS's Judy Woodruff Talks Reparations, Chides Pushback Against CRT
Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour presented former host Judy Woodruff’s latest entry in her bimonthly foray into America at a Crossroads, the ideological travelogue she’s taken up after retiring from the news desk. She journeyed to her birthplace in Tulsa to amplify a radical call for racial reparations and chide Republicans for allegedly making it harder to teach the history of the Tulsa race…
PBS Hits L.A. Dodgers for 'Sin' of Disinviting Anti-Catholic 'Nuns'
Tuesday’s edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour devoted a full segment to the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team re-inviting the offensive Catholic-mocking drag troupe “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” (i.e. a troupe of men who dress as nuns, founded in San Francisco in 1979, their motto "Go forth and sin some more!”) to the team’s 10th annual “Pride Night” in…
PBS Ignores Own Poll Showing 62% of Voters Worried About Biden's Age
A brand new poll conducted by NPR/PBS Tuesday shows a “significant majority of Americans say they believe President Biden's mental fitness is a real concern they have about his ability to be president,” according to NPR’s writeup of the poll’s findings. Despite this, PBS NewsHour ignored their own poll during their Tuesday evening broadcast. It was also ignored by the “big three”…
PBS's Amanpour Agrees with Democrat: GOP Competing for 'Most Extreme'
Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour, fresh from arrogantly criticizing her network CNN for hosting a Donald Trump town hall and urging student journalists to “speak truth to power,” didn’t exactly renew confidence in the news media to challenge the powerful with her choice of guest to discuss the looming debt-ceiling deadline: Patrick Gaspard, president of the left-wing Center…
Amanpour Rips Her Own Network's Trump Town Hall In Commencement Speech
The internal dissent at CNN over the town hall with Donald Trump erupted into public view on Wednesday as Christiane Amanpour accepted the Columbia Journalism Award during the school’s commencement ceremonies. During her speech, Amanapour also encouraged the graduates to put neutrality aside in the pursuit of liberal ideas, or in her words “truth.”
Column: The PBS 'NewsHour' Is a Democrat Spin Hour
PBS has an undeserved reputation for trustworthiness. A new study by the MRC of four months of the PBS NewsHour shows PBS isn't much different than CNN or MSNBC in trashing Republicans. The only difference is we pay for it. Why should we?
Journos on PBS Discuss Need to Prevent Airing Trump Live Like CNN Did
More public broadcasting arrogance was on display on the tax-funded PBS weekly political roundtable Washington Week Friday evening, as journalists huddled around their tax-supported digital fires to brainstorm ideas on how to trip up Republican candidate Donald Trump’s appeal in 2024 by denying him live coverage, as if the press is the first and final arbiter of who should speak…
Study: Taxpayer-Subsidized PBS Whacks GOP with 85% Negative News
Given their government funding, citizens should expect public broadcasting’s news coverage to be scrupulously neutral, yet an exhaustive Media Research Center study of PBS NewsHour found coverage of the first four months of the new Congress has been heavily slanted against Republicans.
On PBS, Liberal Journos Trade Tips on Deplatforming Trump for ‘24
Thursday's PBS News Hour featured liberal journalistic handwringing over 2024 candidate Donald Trump’s CNN live town hall from New Hampshire, filled with adoring fans and questioning from CNN’s Kaitlin Collins. Online the segment went by “CNN town hall highlights media’s struggle with how to cover Trump and his lies.” Indeed, the segment featured three facets of the liberal…
PBS Pushing Transgender Activism on Children Via 'Learning Toolkit'
Tax-supported PBS has attracted heat of late for indoctrinating children on “queer,” transgender, and related issues, including through its PBS LearningMedia brand used in schools, under the rubric “Understanding LGBTQ+ Identity: A Toolkit for Educators.” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed funding for the state’s PBS station for “indoctrination and over-sexualization” of children.…
Brooks Blames 'Arrogant' Media For Trump's Popularity
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart mixed up their usual Friday routine on PBS NewsHour and actually had, by PBS standards, a contentious argument on whether or not media arrogance partly explains Donald Trump’s popularity.
