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After Cheering Biden, PBS Frets Over 'Guardrails' vs 'Strongman' Trump

Clay Waters
February 8th, 2025 6:31 PM

Just in time to stir up resistance to the Trump Administration’s whirlwind of government change, PBS is beginning a series called “On Democracy,” which aims to go beyond the day to day news “to look at big questions about the changing laws, institutions and norms.” PBS News Hour co-host Amna Nawaz conducted the series’ first interview on Thursday’s edition, with Barton Gellman from…

 
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CRACKPOT CNN: Trump Will Use Military to Steal Election

Joseph Norris
September 24th, 2020 5:10 PM

For weeks, CNN’s New Day has been claiming that President Trump has been harming the election process by making claims of voter fraud and abuse. It is hard to imagine how these statements could be hurting the process more than New Day did by openly speculating, with no evidence, that the only way Trump can win reelection is by using the military or the justice department to…

 

Liberal Reporter Barton Gellman Ready to Accept Award at ACLU Fundrais

Tim Graham
April 22nd, 2014 8:04 AM
“Washington Gadfly” blogger Evan Gahr caught Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman in an ethical dance over accepting a “civil liberties” award from the ACLU at their “Bill of Rights Award Dinner.” Gellman recently shared the Pulitzer Prize with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for revealing Edward Snowden's leaks about U.S. anti-terrorist surveillance programs. Four  years ago, TIME sent…
 

HBO Targets Cheney With Miniseries Based on PBS 'Dark Side' Show

John Nolte
March 22nd, 2011 8:17 AM
With a movie based on the gossipy, mostly unsourced, pro-Obama, Palin-savaging “Game Change” already casting and likely timed to boost President Barack –War of Choice! — Obama’s re-election bid in 2012, it looks as though HBO’s decided to double down with a miniseries written by a “West Wing” alum that’s based in part on the PBS (your tax dollars used against you again) Frontline documentary, “…
 

How Is It 'News' for Time to Hype 'Extreme Militias' In the Last Weeks

Tim Graham
October 7th, 2010 11:16 PM
Time magazine's news judgment is truly puzzling. With just weeks to go before a crucial midterm election, their cover story package is ten pages stuffed with “The Secret World of Extreme Militias.” Voters are poised to sweep a pile of Democrats out of office from coast to coast, and they're camped in Zanesville, Ohio with a right-wing militia that claims 300 members as the nation's number one…
 

Lawrence O'Donnell Draws Parallel Between Extreme Militia Groups and T

Alex Fitzsimmons
October 1st, 2010 4:54 PM
What do Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, a domestic terrorist who was developing a nuclear weapon, and Tea Party activists concerned about lavish government spending have in common? Nothing, unless you're a newly-minted cable news anchor with a liberal agenda.Interviewing a Time magazine writer who conducted an in-depth investigation into right-wing militias, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on…
 

Bozell Column: Seeing Moral Grays in

Brent Bozell
November 17th, 2009 10:55 PM
Picking up the Sunday paper on November 15 could make a reader a little airsick – even while standing in the driveway. The Washington Post "news analysis" on the front page carried the headline "9/11 trial could become a parable of right and wrong: Before worldwide audience, both prosecution, defense seek control of narrative." Does The Washington Post really think that the death and destruction…