Public Broadcasting
BREAKING: CPB Announces It's Shutting Down Next Month, Bozell Reacts
Deadline.com is reporting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down its operations after the loss of federal funding. "The CPB informed employees on Friday that the majority of staff positions will end on Sept. 30, with a small transition team in place through January, 2026." If this happens, this is not a shutdown of PBS or NPR stations, but a shutdown of the corporation that…
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Idiotic Amanpour on PBS: 'Genocide' in Gaza, Israel Like Assad Regime
On the reflexively anti-Israel show CNN International affairs show Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS, regular fill-in host Bianna Golodryga spoke on Monday to regular guest “humanitarian Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council,” about Israel's supposedly deliberate starvation plan in its war against Hamas in Gaza. Judging by Egeland’s past and present…
'This is Bull****': Jon Stewart Attacks Fox For Citing MRC Studies
As Jon Stewart concluded Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday, he attacked Fox News for citing my late night guest studies.
Pompous Public Media Poobahs CRY and Quote Shakespeare Over Defunding
Unbelievable. Kudos to Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon for posting some pompous and ridiculous audio from a recent meeting of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board after Congress rescinded CPB funding amounting to $1.1 billion. The CPB board members were crying and comparing themselves to military heroes in Shakespeare plays and the movies.
Years After BLM, Antifa, COVID, Masks Are Bad Now That ICE Uses Them
Years after the Black Lives Matter protests and attendant vandalism, looting and burning, the PBS news division is suddenly worried that masks….help people get away with crimes! Why the sudden interest? Well, it’s a way to indirectly fault ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for criminals impersonating agents. Sunday’s NewsHour Weekend segment carried the online headline “Rise…
NPR Offers a Puffy Platform for Mayor Pete, Unlike Their Bannon Banter
On Wednesday’s Morning Edition, NPR host Steve Inskeep interviewed potential 2028 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. The tone was chummy, with questions asking how Democrats can tweak their tactics and win elections. That's not like an earlier interview with MAGA strategist Steve Bannon, which was much more contentious.
On PBS, Glasser Gets Religion: Republicans Have 'Lost Their Souls'
On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, the Democrats around the table were furious that Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump accused Team Obama of treason in manipulating intelligence to create the Russian-collusion hoax. Susan Glasser of The New Yorker said Republicans have "lost their souls" in failing to denounce Trump for attacking Obama.
Trump Ends Harmful LGBTQ Propaganda Voice -- Will PBS Stick With Them?
The Trump administration in June ended a federal partnership with the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that purports to provide suicide-prevention support to supposed LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer-plus) children through the federally funded 988 Lifeline. Callers will now be directed to the main hotline. The Trevor Project bills itself as “the leading suicide prevention and…
PBS Hits Trump's 'War on Facts,' 'Dangerous' Impact on Free Speech
PBS host Christiane Amanpour fretted over “the state of freedom of speech in America” with reporter David Enrich, author of the anti-Trump book Murder The Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. Enrich has become a popular figure on PBS and NPR of late, warning of the Trump administration’s “chilling effect” on media. Amanpour accused Trump of…
Snobby PBS-NPR Station Manager: Conservatives 'Don't Listen or Watch'
The playbook for the PBS/NPR lobby in the defunding fight has been to send liberal journalists to talk with station managers in small communities in red states, as if that somehow represents the Eastern leftist elites that make the programming on "public" broadcasting. Politico's "West Wing Playbook" column talked to Don Dunlap, a station manager in Corpus Christi, Texas. He said people…
PBS’s Anti-Semitism Expert: Columbia Settlement Was ‘Ransom’ to Trump
The taxpayer-defunded PBS News Hour Wednesday retained its hostility (as documented in a Media Research Center study) against the Trump administration protecting Jewish students and faculty from the Hamasniks marauding elite liberal campuses in protest of Israel’s defensive war in Gaza. Wesleyan University president Michael Roth made another News Hour appearance ridiculously…
PBS Warns Of 'Institutional Capture' As Columbia Settles With Trump
Even by its own standards, the weekly Friday news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks was especially tone-deaf and unintelligent. The trio would have you believe that Columbia University settling with the Trump administration is both a threat to universities…
PBS Alone Takes Gabbard Seriously With Full, Flawed Take on Russiagate
While the broadcast networks mostly ignored it, Wednesday’s PBS News Hour devoted a five-and-a-half-minute segment on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s White House briefing on details of the declassification of materials related to “Russiagate,” the investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Of course, the…
