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PBS Runs Down GOP Candidates on 'Slavery' Curriculum, Transgender Kids

October 1st, 2023 10:23 PM

The taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour program caught up to the second Republican presidential debate on Thursday evening and predictably characterized it as a sad mess. One of the paper’s most Republican-hostile reporters, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, pounced on some of the Republican responses and fact-checked them after the fact, in keeping with the show’s progressive…

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PBS Lets Green Party Nut Bash Capitalism, Bolsters Biden With Krugman

September 29th, 2023 6:21 PM

It was “Green Day” on Amanpour & Co. Wednesday, with host Christiane Amanpour in London interviewing Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski and Obama administration economic advisor Betsey Stevenson on the same show. The result was 20 minutes of environmental rabble-rousing against the Conservative Party in the UK, followed by kissing up to the Biden administration in the US over…

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Trump Takes the Wheel? PBS Promotes Cassidy Hutchinson, No Fact Checks

September 29th, 2023 3:42 PM

Even on a newscast preceding that night’s GOP presidential debate, the tax-supported PBS NewsHour kept its focus on former president Donald Trump, inviting former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on to promote her book, Enough, about her traumatic experiences in the Trump White House and how dangerous it would be for Trump to win a second term of office. You may remember…

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Media Choir Raise Voices to Falsely Glorify Feinstein a ‘Centrist’

September 29th, 2023 2:04 PM

California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein was a liberal stalwart who took up extreme positions against Second Amendment rights and harmful environmental policies. But when it was announced on Friday that she had passed away overnight, the liberal media choir joined their voices to gaslight Americans and falsely proclaim her a “centrist Democrat” who simply leaned towards “liberal…

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PBS’s Amanpour Fawns Over UK Guest As They Bash Boris, Brexit, Murdoch

September 28th, 2023 11:06 PM

Host Christiane Amanpour interviewed former UK Tory minister and Member of Parliament Rory Stewart on Monday’s Amanpour & Co., and they got right down to smearing Stewart’s former Conservative Party in Britain, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in particular, as dangerous extremist “nationalists.” Amanpour eagerly introduced Stewart, who in turn eagerly slimed his former…

How Often Did Media Promote Pundits From Iran's 'Expert Initiative'?

September 26th, 2023 2:09 PM

Jay Solomon over at Semafor is out with a piece that details how the Iranian Foreign Ministry worked closely with a bunch of American and European academics to help sell the Iran nuclear deal back in 2014 by repeating Tehran’s lines. Members of the group, dubbed the Iran Experts Initiative, were frequent sources for media outlets before and after the deal was signed in 2015.

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Rupert Rant: NPR’s Folkenflik Rips ‘Corrosive…Right-Wing’ Fox on PBS

September 24th, 2023 8:19 AM

The "public" broadcasting elite loathes Fox News. When news broke that 92-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Fox News founder and chairman of News Corp, is stepping down in favor of his son Lachlan, that encouraged tax-funded PBS to trot out Murdoch-bashing journalist David Folkenflik of tax-funded National Public Radio on Thursday evening to lament the chairman’s "corrosive" right-…

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PBS Attacks GOP 'Nihilistic Performance Artists' Not $33 Trillion Debt

September 23rd, 2023 10:00 AM

For PBS NewsHour’s regular weekly recap on Friday with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, the news that the national debt surpassed $33 trillion was deemed so unimportant that it was not mentioned. What was considered important are the internal power dynamics within the Republican Party.

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PBS Pundit David Brooks Confesses: My Inflation Tweet Was So 'STUPID'

September 23rd, 2023 6:24 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks went viral on "Twitter" on Wedneday for a tweet displaying a burger, fries, and a glass of booze. "This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible." Brooks was so roundly mocked that on Friday's PBS NewsHour, he offered an apology that he was "stupid" and insensitive. 

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'Stabbed in the Back,' PBS, Al Gore Attack British PM on Climate

September 21st, 2023 12:41 PM

PBS’s Christiane Amanpour welcomed former Vice President Al Gore to her Wednesday program to join her in attacking British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement that he will be delaying certain aspects of the country’s climate initiatives with Gore going so far as to declare young people feel “stabbed in the back.”

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Column: 'Public Broadcasting' Bored Silly by Republican Hearings

September 21st, 2023 6:00 AM

Attorney General Merrick Garland offered a “fiery defense” in a “grueling hearing” of a House Judiciary Committee “stocked with far-right stalwarts,” as The New York Times described it. A special bucket of opprobrium should go to what they call “public broadcasting,” PBS and NPR. On the PBS NewsHour, they could barely manage a two-minute story on the Garland hearing.

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MSNBC Fawns Over ‘Powerful,’ ‘Positive’ Biden Speech at the U.N.

September 19th, 2023 3:26 PM

President Biden made his 2023 address Tuesday morning to the United Nations General Assembly and, as predicted, the liberal media were there to swoon over it like North Korean propagandists. MSNBC played that role, touting it as a “comprehensive” set of remarks with “powerful” and “positive” messaging that showed concern for climate change and Ukraine.

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VILE! Leftist Media Blame Conservatives for ‘Stoking’ Racial Hatred

September 19th, 2023 10:00 AM

The following are some of the most recent and heinous examples of the media accusing Republicans and conservatives of stoking racial hatred.  

PBS Plays Judge and Jury for Biden: ‘We Have Established…No Evidence’

September 18th, 2023 7:42 PM

On the latest edition of PBS’s weekly political journalist roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, guest host Laura Barron-Lopez (a familiar face here at NewsBusters) set the tone right from the show’s introduction, of desperate Republicans hurling unsubstantiated accusations against the wall: "House Republicans in disarray.... Speaker Kevin McCarthy opens an impeachment inquiry…