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PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v
PBS Plays Up 'Politicized' Penny Case, Some See 'Reckless Vigilante'
The acquittal of Daniel Penny disturbed the ivory tower virtue of the PBS News Hour on Monday evening. Penny, who intervened on a New York City subway in the summer of 2023 when violent homeless addict Jordan Neely threatened to kill other passengers, had been put on trial for his civic heroism by an otherwise soft-on-crime Manhattan prosecutor, Alvin Bragg.
CALL DOGE: Taxpayer-Funded PBS Thinks NBC Wasn't Hard Enough on Trump
Over at taxpayer-funded PBS, there was quite the bit of grousing over the level of intensity of the interview of President Elect Donald Trump that aired on NBC’s Meet the Press. As they complained about the lack of fact-checking, they demonstrated why both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS should be among the first targets of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE…
PBS News Hour: 27 Times More Likely to Tag 'Far Right,' Not 'Far Left'
As a taxpayer-funded TV network, PBS should not be favoring one side over the other. But MRC analysts studying the use of labels over 18 months on the PBS News Hour found they were 27 times more likely to identify an "extreme" on the right than they would on the left. There were 162 extreme-right labels and only six extreme-left descriptions.
Brooks Fears Trump Will 'Blowtorch' 'Neutral Institutions of Justice'
New York Times columnist and supposed conservative half of PBS News Hour’s Friday Brooks and Capehart segment was dismayed that President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, will supposedly help him take a “blowtorch to the neutral institutions of justice.”
PBS News Hour Airs 10 Minutes of Trans Panic Over Trump's Election
The PBS News Hour on Wednesday, having evidently learned nothing from the election results, returned to its long-standing left-wing alphabet obsession, even adding a number ("two-spirit"), in a story about Trump “rolling back transgender rights.” (They also interviewed a journalist from a publication that identities as a number.) But this isn’t PBS’s old children’s staple Sesame…
As Trump Shakes Up Deep State, PBS's Barron-Lopez Pushes New Red Scare
As President-elect Donald Trump moves to shake up the federal bureaucracy, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez pushed a new Red Scare on Tuesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour. But first came a series of clips introduced by anchor Amna Nawaz of several disgruntled bureaucrats and union members working (for now) in the federal government. Surprise! They’re all opposed to Trump’…
PBS Smears White Women, Sees Role ‘Racism and Sexism' Played for Trump
Friday’s PBS News Hour didn’t take Donald Trump’s re-election well, continuing to blame sexism for the failure of Americans to elect those incredibly impressive candidates Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, picking instead the sexist ogre Donald Trump (who just appointed the first female chief of staff in presidential history). Even with two guests instead of the usual monotone…
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.
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…
MSG Poisoning? PBS Guest Flips Out, Predicts Trump Concentration Camps
Monday evening’s PBS News Hour devoted its first 11 minutes of news -- two full segments -- to bashing Donald Trump’s long rally at Madison Square Garden in the heart of his hometown of New York City. White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez actually led with criticism from his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, not news about the rally itself.
PBS Flouts Goldwater Rule: Invites Shrink to Diagnose Trump Dementia
Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis on Thursday’s PBS News Hour for a segment that felt very much like a violation of the psychiatric profession's so-called Goldwater Rule: If he is reelected, former President Donald Trump, now 78 years old, would be the oldest president ever elected. After a number of appearances where his remarks were rambling or incoherent…
PBS Urges Against Downplaying 'The Role That Sexism' Affects Harris
PBS News Hour sought to answer the question on Friday of why Kamala Harris is struggling with male voters. Both New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed that it is important not to “downplay the role that sexism” plays here.
Balance, PBS-Style: A Dem Harris Supporter vs. a GOP Harris Supporter
Behold tax-funded PBS’s idea of balanced election coverage: A “Republican” campaign strategist who endorsed the Democrat was interviewed on Tuesday night’s show, and a die-hard Democratic partisan strategist on Wednesday night. Former John McCain campaign strategist Mike Murphy had already signed a letter endorsing Harris over Trump, yet somehow appeared as a “Republican.”
