'Long' Time: PBS News Hour Hid Its Inflation Expert During Biden Era
PBS joined the other networks in negatively spinning the official inflation numbers, which were comparatively tame compared to inflation during the Biden years. Former Washington Post columnist turned Navy Federal Credit Union economist Heather Long popped up again on Wednesday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the latest inflation report. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett led the show by filtering the figures…
PBS Sells Book by Liberal Author: How Bureaucrats Defeated Musk, DOGE
The PBS News Hour fell over itself to highlight a new book by liberal author Michael Lewis painting the federal bureaucracy's triumph over the former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), once run by the press’s Public Enemy No. 2, space and electric car entrepreneur Elon Musk. who they noted was the #1 GOP donor this year.
PBS Host Frames Talarico Absence: How Does He Fight 'Misinformation'?
Monday’s weekly political roundtable on the PBS News Hour sounded like the typical Republicans Are Losing hootenanny. The online headline was “Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the GOP's vulnerability in the midterms.” But the eye-opening part was anchor Geoff Bennett trying to paper over Texas Democrat James Talarico’s absence from the campaign trail.
PBS Slimes Elon Musk and His ‘Darkest Hard-Right Policy Prescriptions’
Thursday’s PBS News Hour continued to use space tech entrepreneur, “X” owner, and Donald Trump fan Elon Musk into a convenient punching bag, continuing to spread smears of Musk (“increasingly unhinged” in 2023, drug use in 2025) as they promoted a four-hour hit-piece documentary.
Aggressive Centrism: Brooks Blasts GOP, Democratic Senate Candidates
The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks is supposed to be PBS News Hour’s Friday conservative weekly news recapper, but he often sounds indistinguishable from MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart. However, he occasionally stumbles into an aggressive form of centrism, where he condemns just about everyone, and Friday was one of those occasions. Looking at the state of discourse in the midterm Senate…
PBS Frets Over Not Cutting Israel Aid: Led to Thousands Dead in Gaza?
The October 6 edition of the PBS News Hour demonstrated the show’s anti-Israel hostility carried even onto the evening before the third anniversary of the worst pogrom since the Holocaust.
NewsBusters Podcast: PBS = MS NOW When It Covers Republican Campaigns
For more than five decades, conservative and Republican taxpayers were forced to subsidize PBS and their routinely leftist "news," or messaging. In the midterms, we have found again that they overwhelmingly pounce on the Republicans with negative spin on their "News Hour." Nobody can argue that spinning against the GOP 94 percent of the time is synonymous with "the truth."
When PBS Finds Killings by Non-Citizens Newsworthy: Marines in Okinawa
The Monday evening PBS News Hour showed concern over unwelcome foreigners (U.S. Marines) committing serious crimes in another country (Japan). A shame the network has ignored the spate of crimes, up to murder, by illegal immigrants in the United States, most of the offenders arriving during the Obama/Biden-era of open borders. Suddenly, anecdotes are proof of a widespread problem.
Month Before Midterms, PBS Piles 94% Negative Spin on GOP, Trump
Atlantic writer David Brooks, the “conservative” half of the PBS News Hour’s traditional Friday evening political discussion, offered rare criticism of his media colleagues on the September 25 edition: “We have got to reestablish some distance from the Democratic Party….They're not people we root for. They're not people we're spin doctors for.” But with just a month to go before the 2026…
PBS Anchor Tosses the 'No Evidence' Card at Trump and Bibi on Flydubai
Most of the network coverage of the hijacking attempt on a Flydubai plane headed to Israel and loaded with Israelis has cited President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suggest that the early intelligence suggests a terrorist motive. PBS anchor Geoff Bennett claimed neither Trump nor Netanyahu "has provided evidence" of a terrorist motive. It's not what an official should…
Brooks Flubs Basic Facts As PBS Tries Dunking on GOP's Midterm Chances
The media’s week of trying to focus solely on Republican gaffes and hot mic comments continued on Friday’s episode of PBS News Hour, but the tables turned as The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks flubbed two basic facts when trying to paint the GOP’s midterm outlook as dire.
PBS Hosts Book Chat with Lib Fox Host Jessica Tarlov, Not Her Co-Hosts
Geoff Bennett of the PBS News Hour interviewed Jessica Tarlov, the sole liberal panelist on the Fox News Channel’s political-comedic chat show “The Five,” on her new book I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends, begging the question: But has the News Hour ever hosted a conservative regular from “The Five” to talk about a book they’ve written?
OMISSION: Media Lose Interest in New Charges Against ‘Doordash Driver’
Remember the illegal alien that the media were trying to rename “Doordash Driver” á la “Maryland Dad?” The Elitist Media were hot for his story when it furthered narratives of rogue ICE agents committing abuses against defenseless migrants. After new details became public in this case, the media dropped “Doordash Dad” like he was a bad delivery.
WRONG: Capehart Says Journalism Is Only Job Protected By Constitution
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart’s Friday appearance on PBS News Hour provided a revealing look at the media’s Main Character Syndrome as he falsely declared that journalism is the job protected by the Constitution while taking a victory lap on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico returning to the White House. Meanwhile, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks was not completely useless. While he criticized…
