Laura Barrón-López
Journos on PBS Discuss Need to Prevent Airing Trump Live Like CNN Did
More public broadcasting arrogance was on display on the tax-funded PBS weekly political roundtable Washington Week Friday evening, as journalists huddled around their tax-supported digital fires to brainstorm ideas on how to trip up Republican candidate Donald Trump’s appeal in 2024 by denying him live coverage, as if the press is the first and final arbiter of who should speak…
NewsBusters Podcast: PBS Stands for President Biden's Servants
Tuesday's PBS NewsHour displayed a stark partisan contrast in coverage. It began with eleven minutes of promotional coverage of Biden's re-election announcement, with no mention of Hunter Biden. They then followed with eight minutes of negative coverage about the civil rape trial of Donald Trump as alleged by journalist E. Jean Carroll.
PBS Downplays Weak Trump Charges, Pushes Neo-Nazi, White Power Threats
Former President Trump was arrested on 34 felony counts of bookkeeping fraud involving hush money and appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, as everyone in the world knows. PBS made the most out of the case, devoting a half hour of its evening “news hour” to multiple angles on the indictment. The dubious charges by New York district attorney Alvin Bragg involve years-old allegations…
PBS: Bragg, Soros Criticisms 'Anti-Semitic' With 'Racist Undertones'
PBS NewsHour twice accused GOP critics of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and left-wing political donor George Soros of anti-Semitism on Friday’s show. Those doing the accusing were not cantankerous liberal guests, but host Amna Nawaz and White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez.
PBS on 'Violent Extremism': Right-Wingers Caused Antifa Violence??
The PBS NewsHour attacked Donald Trump’s weekend speech in Waco, Texas, with host Amna Nawaz repeating the word “extremist” in her introduction before tossing to White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez. Barron-Lopez and her two liberal guests went far beyond Trump’s Waco rant to condemn substantive conservative policy and philosophy as racist and violent: "Adrienne in your piece…
PBS Rips GOP for 'Restricting' LGBTQ Rights, Dems 'Safeguard' Rights
Tax-funded PBS NewsHour made clear where it stood on “LGBTQ” issues over two separate segments on two consecutive nights. Host Amna Nawaz introduced the Wednesday evening segment faulting the Republican governor of Tennessee for rejecting federal money for “HIV prevention": "In Tennessee, a fight has been brewing over another public health issue, HIV. It comes as several Republican-…
PBS: CPAC Now a Hotbed of ‘White Grievance Politics’ and ‘Anti-LGBTQ’
PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz introduced an unfriendly segment on the Conservative Political Action Conference's (CPAC) annual gathering on the Potomac. Laura Barron-Lopez’s solemnly intoned field report Friday evening was interspersed with her own opinions about the “white grievance politics” and “false belief” about teaching Critical Race Theory on display.
PBS Barely Lets Republican Speak on 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Kids
PBS NewsHour aired an 11-minute segment under the headline “Parents concerned as new state laws restrict rights of transgender children.” There were ten minutes of leftist advocacy, and 48 seconds of Republican rebuttal. Their "expert" compares Republican proposals to "genocide."
PBS Reporter Spews DNC Points, Ripping Comer on Classified Documents
On Monday’s PBS NewsHour, the show’s White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez brought Democrat-friendly summations to the Trump and Biden classified-documents controversies, suggesting Trump (and not Biden) may have violated the Espionage Act.
PBS Claim: GOP ‘Immersed in...Far-Right Networks…Moscow to Budapest'
Under the graphic “Exporting Extremism,” PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett set the table to compare extremism among the right in the U.S. and Brazil in the opening moments of Wednesday evening’s show: New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined the show’s White House correspondent as the News Hour engaged in yet another taxpayer-funded attempt to link "…
CNN: 'Latinx' Ban Is 'Xenophobic,' Like Not Using 'Correct Pronouns'
CNN Tonight’s Thursday panel did not appreciate new Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issuing an executive order banning the state government from using the term “Latinx” with Democratic strategist Maria Cardona labeling it “xenophobic” and PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez comparing it to not using someone’s preferred pronouns.
PBS Fearmongers: GOP ‘Threats to Democracy Remain,’ Like Speaker Vote?
Not even the loss in November’s congressional elections of many so-called election deniers has stopped PBS from fear-mongering about dangers to democracy. Thursday’s PBS NewsHour featured two hosts and two professors in total agreement about the ongoing perfidy of the Republican Party and the threat to democracy it poses, even as vital electoral reforms like the Electoral Count Reform…
PBS’s Cold Benedict Obit: ‘Controversial Reign Ended' With Resignation
When PBS marked the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on its Saturday evening news program, the obituary was dominated by a fierce anti-Benedict voice railing against the former pope’s alleged neglect of sex abuse cases among Catholic clergy. PBS News Weekend anchor John Yang introduced the story with a brute, unfriendly summing up of Benedict’s tenure: Catholics in mourning. Pope Emeritus…
NPR, PBS Air Totally One-Sided Interviews with New Trans Legislators
The leftists who make endless propaganda with our tax money have laid out a plush red carpet for newly elected bisexual transgender radicals in state legislatures. On Thursday, NPR's All Things Considered typically failed to consult an opposing point of view in a tenderly promotional eight-minute interview. PBS NewsHour did the same.
