PBS Hails Abortion Militant Steinem: Trailblazing' 'Pioneer,' 'Icon'
The PBS News Hour marked the passing of left-wing feminist and abortion militant Gloria Steinem with coverage more akin to heroine worship than journalism. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett opened Thursday’s edition: “We remember feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a trailblazer who helped transform the fight for women`s rights and equality and whose influence spanned generations.” After that opening tease,…
PBS Campaigns For Democrats: 'It Is About Affordability'
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart essentially openly campaigned on Friday on behalf of Democrats by offering up visions of a more affordable America should Democrats win in November.
PBS Whines GOP Weaponizing 'Anti-Islamic Rhetoric' Against El-Sayed
After discussing the Republican Party’s strained relationship with President Trump and next week’s GOP midterm convention, nicknamed by some as Trump-a-palooza, the PBS News Hour “Politics Monday” talk turned to the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and controversial Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, and co-anchor Amna Nawaz fiercely defended El-Sayed against “anti-Islamic rhetoric.”
PBS Updates Partisan Jab on Pennsylvania's 'Unvaxxed' Measles Deaths
The August 25 PBS News Hour leaned hard into the story of two purported deaths of unvaccinated people from measles in Pennsylvania, going further than other networks by running a clip of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro politicizing the situation by criticizing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But now that the sad story, weaponized by Shapiro for partisan use, is falling apart…
The 'Public' Broadcasters Go Soft on Hasan Piker
The networks have largely ignored radical leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. ABC and NBC haven’t found him, while CBS broke the mold with two stories.The PBS News Hour hasn’t mentioned Piker, but it came up on Washington Week. NPR's reporting was weak.
PBS Brings on Fierce Partisan to Trash Trump's National Parks Actions
Friday’s PBS News Hour relied on expertise from a partisan Democrat and environmental activist to criticize the Trump Administration, in panicky fashion, for the supposedly forlorn state of America’s national parks, run by the National Park Service. Nawaz's guest, Tiernan Sittenfeld, was a fierce Biden/Harris partisan during her past term with the League of Conservation Voters.
PBS Finds Newfound Respect For Federalism Amid Trump's Mail Voting EO
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart assembled on Friday to recap the week’s news, which featured them developing a newfound respect for federalism and the Tenth Amendment as President Trump’s executive order about the Postal Service and voting by mail makes its way through the courts.
PBS Downplays Taliban Atrocities in Afghanistan USAID Cuts Segment
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour segment, “A look at the devastating impact of USAID cuts in rural Afghanistan,” could have been more accurately titled “A look at the devastating impact of the Taliban’s brutal takeover of Afghanistan.” But PBS and correspondent Leila Molana-Allen downplayed the atrocities committed by the Taliban in charge of Afghanistan, in favor of more bashing of the Trump team for…
PBS Sands Off Hard-Left DSA as 'Progressive,' Hails Socialist Debs
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour celebrated the upset victory of Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon over liberal anti-Trump hero Alexander Vindman in Florida’s Democratic primary contest for the U.S. Senate. Nixon recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, but none of that pierced the liberal bubble at PBS, which instead hailed her “progressive” victory.
Capehart Denounces Efforts To Tie DSA Senate Candidate To The DSA
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly news recap segment with The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks. During the part of the discussion about DSA candidate Angie Nixon winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, Capehart insisted that you can’t actually claim Nixon is a DSA candidate and therefore tie her to the DSA’s recent praise of Fidel Castro…
PBS Finds GOP 'Election Deniers' Everywhere, After Ignoring DSA Nuts
The PBS News Hour has skipped over the extremist viewpoints of Democratic candidates affiliated or adjacent to the Democratic Socialists of America.Yet the tired anti-Republican trope of accusing virtually every sitting Republican as an “election denier” is still live at the liberal outlet, as demonstrated Tuesday evening, a primary election day in three states. “Election deniers” was the…
PBS Anchor Hits ‘Ghoulish’ NY Times for Criticizing Jason Arday
A rare clash between news media outlets took place over the weekend: PBS News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett took to X Saturday morning to personally call out the New York Times for its “ghoulish” decision to publish a long, surprisingly balanced piece on disgraced Cambridge professor Jason Arday which eventually appeared on the front of Sunday’s edition.
PBS Blames Trump Administration 'Rhetoric' for Threats Against Judges
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour crusaded against threats to federal judges with two guests, both with personal experiences of attacks and harassment, one scary, one tragic, supposedly riled up by inflammatory rhetoric emanating from the Trump Administration. Yet the News Hour itself, under the guise of objective journalism, has lobbed its own inflammatory rhetoric against its conservative…
PBS Pours Cold Water on Trump's D.C. Crime Drop: 'That's Expensive'
The PBS News Hour Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of President Trump declaring a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. and deploying National Guard troops to fight it. Despite crime statistics heading downward over the course of the year, some drastically so, petulant PBS declared the action a mixed bag at best. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: "It has now been one year since President Trump…
