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PBS Smears Musk: People Worried About His 'Mental Health and Drug Use'

February 21st, 2025 12:36 PM

PBS News Hour reporter William Brangham dumped a truckload of slime over space entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk’s head in a 10-minute news piece/hit piece that aired Thursday evening: "Musk changed the platform's policies on hate speech, and when analysts claimed that vitriol then flourished on the renamed X, advertisers balked and the company's value slid. In characteristic…

Column: NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump

February 21st, 2025 5:57 AM

At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations, badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.

Sen. Kennedy: Trim Fat, Like CPB's ‘Gravy Train with Biscuit Wheels'

February 20th, 2025 5:02 PM

Congress shouldn’t be forcing taxpayers to spend a half-billion dollars a year subsidizing news outlets that produce biased, fake news that offends more than half the nation, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Tuesday. In Senate remarks, Kennedy called for the government to stop funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB):

PBS Hails FBI Killer Peltier: ‘Political Prisoner,' Human Rights Icon

February 19th, 2025 7:27 PM

The PBS News Hour, along with the rest of the liberal press, have certainly warmed up to the FBI, America’s chief domestic surveillance organization. Since Donald Trump came on the scene, the press has behaved more like a present-day “Friends of the FBI” – the fundraising group founded by supporters of the infamous J. Edgar Hoover – than the bulwark against government spying and…

Column: Infamous Elon vs. the Good Billionaires

February 19th, 2025 6:04 AM

On the PBS show Washington Week with The Atlantic on February 7, host Jeffrey Goldberg began: “Elon Musk, the unelected, unconfirmed, unofficial, but extremely powerful prime minister of the United States, is carrying out his plan to purge thousands of employees from the federal government.”

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PBS News Series Hammers on Trump’s Burgeoning Russia-Like 'Autocracy'

February 18th, 2025 10:50 PM

The online title to the latest “On Democracy” segment on Monday’s PBS News Hour gave away the slant of the newly hatched series – fear porn to attract liberal viewers during the second Trump Administration: “How the start of Trump’s second term looks like some autocracies”: "President Trump's social media post over the weekend, 'He who saves his country does not violate any law,'…

'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: Wow, PBS Really HATES Elon Musk and DOGE

February 18th, 2025 2:02 PM

Four weeks into the second term of President Trump, it's painfully clear that the "Public Broadcasting Service" loathes Trump and his "government efficiency" czar, billionaire Elon Musk. They don't say the reason out loud, but Musk has made clear he thinks "public" broadcasting should be defunded. He's Public Broadcasting Enemy #1. 

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PBS: Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ Ban Attacks Freedom of 'Nonpartisan' AP

February 18th, 2025 11:17 AM

PBS’s regular Monday political conclave with Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith ran hotter than usual, with concerns about President Trump’s purported assault on the First Amendment fanning the fear flames, leading the panel to make ridiculous defenses of the non-partisan (!) Associated Press.

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PBS Mourns a Month Of 'Ivy League Right-Wing Nihilism'

February 15th, 2025 9:41 AM

PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks came together on Friday to mourn the first month of Donald Trump 2.0. Together, the trio would lament the supposed lack of “guardrails” that is allowing Trump to run “roughshod” over the government in pursuit of “Ivy League right-wing nihilism.”

Elitist Krugman: Low-Income Trumpers Lack 'Sophisticated View' on $$$

February 14th, 2025 3:58 PM

If PBS wants to combat accusations that the tax-funded news network is a haven for smug elitist politics (PBS, where even the conservatives are liberal!), Thursday night’s segment featuring former New York Times columnist and (once) respected economist Paul Krugman wasn’t the way to go about it. Krugman really leaned into his natural unlikability in the remote interview with PBS’s…

Column: David Brooks, Exhibit A in PBS Avoiding Real Conservatives

February 14th, 2025 6:25 AM

One of the reasons I have long inveighed against “public” TV is its tendency to avoid authentic conservative opinion. For almost 20 years now, Exhibit A has been PBS News Hour pundit David Brooks. PBS picked up David Brooks as its supposedly right-leaning Friday night opinionator in 2004, shortly after he became a New York Times columnist in 2003.

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PBS: Trump Capping NIH Payments ‘Sent Chills' in Scientific Community

February 13th, 2025 6:01 AM

Amanpour & Co. was guest hosted on Tuesday by Paula Newton, last seen here in January fretting over the disturbing coincidence of Martin Luther King Jr. Day coinciding with the inauguration of Donald Trump. Tuesday she was talking to the architect of Obamacare to warn about the Trump Administration’s “drastic cuts” to the National Institute of Health, part of the cost-cutting…

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Joe Klein's Internet Whispers: Democrats Display a 'Vast Cluelessness'

February 11th, 2025 2:18 PM

The pundits may say Democrats are still "licking their wounds" from their 2024 defeats, but the recent Democrat meeting on February 1 focusing on how they must have a "non-binary" representative was underplayed by the media. Joe Klein used to be a prominent TV pundit and Newsweek columnist who loved Bill Clinton's more moderate style. On his Substack, he lamented the party now…

PBS's DEI Deception Foiled: Did Network Try to Skirt Trump Exec Order?

February 11th, 2025 11:10 AM

The iconoclastic news site The Free Press had a Monday evening scoop, courtesy of an inside tipster, that taxpayer-funded news network PBS was trying to conceal its DEI program from President Trump’s executive order and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): "...we wrote to PBS asking them about a tip we received from a high-ranking executive at the…