Public Broadcasting
Column: Why Is PBS Allowed to Be Mangle-MAGA TV?
Nothing underlines the partisan nature of PBS right now than The Atlantic magazine being allowed to take over the long-running Washington Week program in August of 2023. This was not a hostile takeover, but a deeper branding of what PBS is – taxpayer-funded mangle-MAGA TV.
‘Campaign of Lies’; Glasser Takes to PBS to Vent Anti-Trump Bitterness
On the post-election edition of PBS’s Friday political roundtable, Washington Week with The Atlantic, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker delivered the bitter highlights, covering the same ground as she did in her New Yorker article, “Donald Trump’s Revenge -- The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever…
Capehart Attributes Trump Win To 'Racism and Sexism'
The passage of a few days to allow for more mature reflection after Election Day has not affected Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Capehart attributed Donald Trump’s victory to “racism and sexism” and a list of other horribles that the country refuses to acknowledge.
OOOPS: PBS Pushed Late Momentum for Kamala in Iowa, Swing States
The PBS News Hour’s most partisan reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, displayed her Democratic favoritism during her long Election Night coverage from Kamala Harris’s election night headquarters. But her pro-Harris hype started before Election Day, with happy talk about Harris’s prospects in most of the swing states, none of which panned out for her campaign. The day before on the PBS…
Trump Honeymoon Over at PBS: 'Violent Riot Against Democratic Process'
Around the witching hour, when Trump’s victory wasn’t quite official but definitely a reality, the normally more buttoned-up crew covering the election for PBS let its fear and anger fly. First up -- before signing off from Donald Trump’s victory party at 2:58 a.m., reporter William Brangham went on the petulant rant he’d apparently been holding in for several hours of coverage.
NPR Closed Out Campaign by Hyping Wives Secretly Voting for Kamala
Taxpayer-funded NPR underlined how firmly it's on Team Kamala by airing a story on Monday's Morning Edition hyping the notion that women were secretly voting for Kamala despite their pig-headed Trump-backing husbands. The headline was "Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret." Never mind that if they're voting for her, they're not…
Glum and Glummer: PBS Reporter's Harris Optimism Dissolves in Red Wave
PBS brought its familiar News Hour crew to Election Night 2024, including anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. Laura Barron-Lopez reported from Howard University in D.C, Harris’ “victory party” locale, while William Brangham reported from Trump’s actual victory party in West Palm Beach. The anchors checked in with the on-scene reporters roughly every hour, and one could see the…
PBS Prof Warns of ‘Very Dangerous Rhetoric’ from Trumpian Christians
On PBS News Weekend, only a few days before the presidential election, anchor John Yang harped constantly on social issues in order to cast Republicans, specifically Trump supporters, as extremists. One night after attacking Republicans as transphobic, PBS News Weekend, again anchored by Yang, attacked Trump’s Christian conservative supporters with the help of yet another…
LGBTQ PBS Laments GOP Spending on Ads ‘Demonizing Transgender People'
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for TV public-affairs programs, insisted upon “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature.” That’s not what we’ve gotten, a grand deception made all the more clear in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. One candidate, Donald Trump…
PBS Lies: Trump 'Talked About Cheney in Violent and Threatening Terms'
PBS entered the last weekend before Election Day maintaining the deceitful form in which it has covered the race for the last two years. On Friday evening’s edition, Laura Barron-Lopez lived up to her position as the most partisan reporter at the PBS News Hour, clipping Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney, ignoring the clear anti-war context to claim he was advocating a firing…
Politico’s Daniels Hails ‘Centrists’ Obama, Biden, and Harris on PBS
On Friday evening’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on tax-funded PBS, show host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg set a “foreboding” scene, just a few days before Election Day. He threw in all the anti-Trump buzzwords,…
PBS Snipes at Vote Integrity 'Purge' in VA: 'Still Scared to Vote?'
The Democratic Party, which accuses Republicans of trying to subvert confidence in the electoral process, is oddly reluctant to actually ensure that only citizens are allowed to vote. The press, including taxpayer-supported PBS and NPR, are helping the Democrats make that case, with skeptical coverage of the Supreme Court ruling that Virginia can “purge” noncitizens from the state’s voter…
NPR Hails 'Smart' Move: Lying 'Trump Will Ban Porn' Ads on Porn Sites
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio will pounce on any cute anti-Trump angles they can find in the final days of this campaign. On Friday, NPR political reporter Susan Davis posted this beaut at NPR.org – “Meet the Democrats using porn ads to convince Trump voters to stay home.”
PBS Gets Out PA Harris Vote: ‘Racist, Sexist’ MSG Has ‘Broken Through'
As the presidential campaign enters its final week, Laura Barron-Lopez, White House correspondent for the PBS News Hour, got the vote out for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, while on assignment on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, covering Harris’s “closing argument” speech which Harris delivered later that evening.
