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Tom Friedman on PBS: Why Won't Press Ask Hamas Leader About Killing?

January 29th, 2024 4:02 PM

The PBS current affairs program Amanpour & Co. on Thursday hosted the invariably self-assured long-time New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who unleashed some harsh criticism of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But then things took a surprising and welcome turn, as Friedman criticized journalists’ double standards in its war coverage. What about…

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On PBS, Radical Playwright Dismisses Anti-Semitism by Leftists on Gaza

January 13th, 2024 6:03 AM

On taxpayer-funded PBS, radical-left playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner appeared on Amanpour & Co. and tried to downplay left-wing anti-Semitism and weirdly claimed that there is nothing anti-Semitic about calling for an "intifada" against Israel.

Amanpour: Trump 'Doubling Down on His Vision of Being a Dictator'

December 12th, 2023 8:25 PM

Trump (Second-Term) Derangement Syndrome was on display in a very special issue of The Atlantic monthly magazine, dated January/February 2024 (see “The Atlantic Melts Down at a Second Trump Term ”) and the PBS-aired interview show Amanpour & Co. was on it, with an interview with Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. The Atlantic has tilted to the…

PBS Laments Musk's Twitter Takeover, But Exposes Ridiculous Yoel Roth

October 15th, 2023 8:26 AM

On the newest episode of tax-supported PBS’s notorious left-wing series Frontline, they spent two hours obsessing over Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. Twitter was never this problematic when it was suppressing conservative speech. Now they're forwarding former Twitter censor Yoel Roth's ridiculous denials of the platform's ideological bias before Musk.

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PBS Hosts Rip Elon Musk: Racist, Sexist, 'Potentially Dangerous Man'

September 16th, 2023 8:42 PM

Two shows that air on tax-funded PBS, the NewsHour and Amanpour & Co., invited journalist and Amanpour regular Walter Isaacson to discuss his new biography of entrepreneur Elon Musk who now owns X (formerly Twitter). The results were less cozy than the usual journalist-to-journalist validation, with the reliably liberal Isaacson getting testy over some of the questions…

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PBS Pushes Lefty Misinformation GOP Trying to Erase History of Slavery

September 2nd, 2023 10:07 PM

On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co., PBS again pushed the left's false narrative that the Republican Party was trying to ban and erase slavery from American history classes. This time Walter Isaacson tapped former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust to be the purported expert for their smear campaign.

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PBS Lets Dyson Slam DeSantis for Leading 'United States of Amnesia'

August 30th, 2023 10:15 AM

PBS is a taxpayer-funded sandbox for the Left. Take the example of Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt and a former MSNBC political analyst and fill-in host. On Monday's Amanpour & Co., interviewer Walter Isaacson rolled out the red carpet for Dyson to rip America and slash Gov. Ron DeSantis for aspiring to lead a "United States of Amnesia."

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Chris Sununu Spurs ANOTHER Touchy Reaction Talking Socialism on PBS

June 18th, 2023 6:01 AM

Another month, another testy interview on Amanpour & Co. (which airs on CNN International and tax-funded PBS) between journalist Walter Isaacson and a conservative figure. Last month it was National Review editor Rich Lowry, who snapped back at Isaacson’s stating that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign was embracing the “culture of resentment.” This month it’s Gov.…

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PBS's Testy Talk With NR's Lowry: ‘I Get to Be the Interviewer Here'

May 27th, 2023 8:19 PM

Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. featured an unusually testy interview, conducted by journalist Walter Isaacson, with Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review. It’s rare that conservatives appear on Amanpour on taxpayer-funded PBS, and the resulting clash between liberal and conservative journalist threw off a few polite sparks about DeSantis vs. Disney.

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WORST OF 2022: The Media Heroes Award

December 28th, 2022 12:15 PM

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Media Heroes Award. 

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PBS Lets Chris Murphy Claim No Gun Background Checks in Some States

December 26th, 2022 1:51 PM

On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show, interviewer Walter Isaacson gave Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) a forum to make a misleading push for gun control as the two discussed the recent 10-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre.

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Ken Burns Hysterically Warns of 'Authoritarianism,' 'Nationalism'

November 30th, 2022 1:35 PM

Documentarian Ken Burns took his book tour to PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday where he hysterically warned that “authoritarianism” and “nationalism” are on the rise in America putting everything from elections to the independent judiciary in trouble. With analysis such as that, it should not be surprising Burns was both short on facts and hypocritical when making his assessment…

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PBS Humorist Blames Reagan For Increased American Ignorance

September 24th, 2022 1:53 PM

Political humorist and satirist Andy Borowitz joined Walter Isaacson on Friday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss his new book Profiles in Ignorance which purports to report on the country’s growing anti-intellectualism. However, Borowitz’s segment prove the book is actually just an anti-Republican screed as he blames the problem on Ronald Reagan and defends Democrats…

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PBS Accuses GOP Of Trying 'To Attract Voters Through Racism'

September 2nd, 2022 11:24 AM

With Mikhail Gorbachev dying earlier in the week, Walter Isaacson wondered on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS, how the fall of the Soviet Union has impacted conservatism. To get his answer, he turned to author Nicole Hemmer who claimed that conservatives are attempting “to attract voters through racism.”