PBS Washington Week: 'AI's Threats to Humanity Reached a Fever Pitch'
Washington Week with The Atlantic was guest hosted on Friday by PBS News Hour White House correspondent Liz Landers, who in the lead segment made one miss the (relative) restraint (occasionally) exercised by the regular show host Jeffrey Goldberg. On the threat of artificial intelligence, Landers assumed the absolute worst-case A.I scenario, then turned on President Trump for his supposed…
PBS Hates New Trump Naturalization Regs, Omit War Criminals Getting In
Thursday’s PBS NewsHour showcased the erroneous assumption that President Trump’s recent changes to the naturalization process were purposefully keeping immigrants from entering the United States and becoming citizens. While they suggested it was because of a general hatred of immigrants, PBS omitted how literal war criminals were allowed to pass through.
Capehart Defends MS NOW: We 'Hold Power Accountable'
Whether he’s hosting an MS NOW show or contributing to Friday editions of PBS News Hour, Jonathan Capehart is your typical liberal pundit who says crazy things about Republicans while doing his best to help Democrats succeed. However, after President Trump banned MS NOW from the White House on Friday, Capehart sought to defend his employer on News Hour by claiming the network’s job is to…
PBS Dual Citizen Journo Puffs Up Iranian Regime, Downplays Opposition
Based in Tehran, journalist and special correspondent, Reza Sayah, wanted to set the record straight on the happenings in Iran on Wednesday’s PBS’ NewsHour. But according to him, the regime was in a good place, they had more support from the people than ever with no opposition in the streets, and they were very generous to journalists like him.
PBS: 'Comedy is a Serious Response' To ICE Creating 'Second Pandemic
Liberal journalists’ love for liberal comedians is not confined to the late night comedy shows. On Monday, PBS arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with comedian Jenny Yang, who he declared is using comedy as “a serious response” to the Trump administration’s immigration policies that Yang herself would call “a second pandemic.”
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.
