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Capehart Wonders If Voters 'Gave Up On Democracy'
During the Biden era’s final installment of Brooks and Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart sought to rebut New York Times columnist David Brooks’s assertion that Donald Trump’s election shows Joe Biden failed to protect democracy. Instead, Capehart argued it was the voters who “gave up on democracy” and wanted to “…
PBS Was Worse Than ABC, CBS, or NBC in Fawning Over Farewell Address
President Biden's farewell address included some sour grapes about “an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power,” after Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump. But taxpayer-funded PBS didn’t see any hyperbole in its special coverage of Biden’s speech, only fair warnings about the incoming Trump administration.
PBS’s Barron-Lopez Uses Hegseth to Repeat Smears of Trump, Musk, RFK
As Donald Trump takes office for the second time,taxpayer-funded PBS News Hour’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, on Monday used the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth to once again throw a bunch of sexual-related accusations at prominent Republicans. But first, co-anchor Geoff Bennett poisoned the waters against Hegseth as well.
Shameless Media Defend Newsom and Bass, Blame Climate Change for Fires
As catastrophic wildfires rage across southern California, the corporate liberal media are engaged in all of their nastiest habits at once in their coverage of the disaster. From fevered shrieking about climate change, to blind defense of inept Democratic officials, to obligatory fits of Trump-bashing, their reporting on of the California wildfires perfectly highlights everything that makes…
PBS Pushes Movie About Affair, Hypes Women 'Claiming Their Sexuality'
As Monty Python might say, “And now for something completely different.” On Monday’s edition of her PBS show that originally airs on CNN International, Christiane Amanpour welcomed Babygirl director Halina Reijn to discuss the film and its place in society. As Reijn tried to claim that discussions of the difference between male and female orgasms and post-menopausal sexuality are the…
PBS’s Barron-Lopez: Pinning Wildfires on Democrats Is ‘Disinformation’
Friday’s edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic played defense for the Democratic Party in California over the raging wildfires that have destroyed tens of thousands of acres and thousands of houses, with one panelist in particular taking the time to chiding Trump and call Republicans liars for daring to point out the obvious failures of human response.
'Great Punishment': Capehart Celebrates Trump's Sentencing
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart did a touchdown dance of sorts on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he celebrated Donald Trump’s “great punishment” of being formally sentenced to unconditional discharge that history “will have to” mention.
PBS: Meta Free Speech Move May 'Pave Way for Spike in Misinformation'
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s startling announcement that his company’s Facebook and Instagram sites would drop its censorious fact-checking process scared the press and leftist academics, who would no longer be able to use pseudo-scientific concepts like “misinformation” to silence conservative debate on issues like COVID, radical Islam, Black Lives Matter, and “climate change.” Tuesday’s…
PBS Pushes Bezos to Sell Washington Post for Axing Kamala Endorsement
Monday’s PBS News Hour featured an interview on the current meltdown at the Washington Post with blunt-talking liberal journalist Kara Swisher, the class-conscious nemesis of Elon Musk and now of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of the Post. In Swisher’s eyes, he used to be one of the good billionaires. At least until he belatedly realized his paper was…
PBS, NPR Blame Fox for Marines at Capitol Riot Where ‘Seven' (?) Died
PBS News Weekend blamed Fox News and “far right” websites for the Capitol Hill riot (or as both PBS and their NPR guests insisted, “insurrection”) on a news segment Sunday evening, the eve of the fourth anniversary of that terrible day in the nation’s capital. NPR's Lauren Hodges spoke of the rioters: “They had an eagerness to see some violence or participate in it.” Which makes it…
PBS Labeling of 'Extreme Right' GOP Congress Continues Into 2025
Both the PBS News Hour and PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable Washington Week in Review used the new 199th Congress and Rep. Mike Johnson narrowly winning the vote to become Speaker of the House to break out their biased labeling tricks. Washington Week moderator and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg (along with contributors Leigh Ann Caldwell and David Ignatius of…
TOP 20 Quotes Showing Lefty Journalists' Contempt for Capitalism
Since the 1980s, the Media Research Center has chronicled lefty journalists’ contempt for capitalism and free markets. Here are the top 20 quotes from our archives demonstrating the radical perspective that’s become all-too-commonplace within the liberal media.
PBS Hails 'The Glow Around' Jimmy Carter's Post-Presidency
PBS News Hour’s first weekly recap featuring Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks of the new year concluded with the duo taking turns singing the praises of former President Jimmy Carter and “the glow around him.” While one might have expected the liberal Capehart to say such things, the supposedly conservative Brooks failed to even…
PBS Lauds Carter for Israel Apartheid Smear, Skips Extremism Tolerance
The hagiography of President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, continued Monday evening on the tax-funded PBS News Hour. The online headline summarized: “A look at Carter’s accomplishments as president and his legacy as a human rights champion.” President Ronald Reagan certainly didn’t get that treatment for ending the Cold War by pushing the Soviets into the dustbin of…