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Tuesday’s PBS News Hour identified guest Ilya Shapiro as a “conservative legal scholar,” a rare type of guest (most show guests are liberals are don’t get an ideological label). Also rare on the network that purports to a deeper more nuanced look at issues – the substantive discussion that took place between he and co-anchor Geoff Bennett. That substantiveness was due almost…

Minnesota-based special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro was the point man for PBS News Hour’s coverage on the ongoing confrontations in far-left Minneapolis between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and mobs of activists obstructing their legal duties. Monday evening’s News Hour devoted a piddling 15 seconds to a despicable mob protest during Sunday services at…

On Friday’s installment of PBS News Hour, New York Times columnist David Brooks proved once again why PBS needs to find an actual conservative for their weekly news recap segment. While doing that rhetorical trick where someone calls for the lowering of tensions in Minneapolis while simultaneously hurling inflammatory accusations at ICE and the Trump administration, Brooks…

Over the past year and a half, public broadcasting and the late night comedy shows have formed an alliance. Some comedians hold fundraisers or advocate for public media on their shows. Public media then in turn hosts the comedians on their own shows and honors them by giving them awards. The latest development in this exercise in mutual liberal back-patting came on Thursday as ABC’s Jimmy…

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Supreme Court taking up two cases involving boys competing in girls' sports. The News Hour performed its usual pro-LGBTQ+ propaganda, even without Laura Barron-Lopez, now ensconced at left-wing MS Now. The pro-trans favoritism and word-choice remains, though perhaps a little defeatism has crept into the tone.

In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 liberal jokes over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two liberal jokes and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS.

The PBS News Weekend show is winding down due to PBS's loss of federal funding, with its final episode appearing Sunday, January 11. Check out what will be missing: "Demonstrators in hundreds of cities and towns took to the streets in a mass protest dubbed the "ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action." Some protesters say "the threat to democracy is just as urgent."

On Friday night's PBS News Hour -- two nights after they devoted nine minutes to recovery efforts on the Los Angeles wildfires without mentioning Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom or the word "Democrats" -- they promoted a new book by MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff that mostly blames Donald Trump and Elon Musk for causing the most damage with their "disinformation."

The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks assembled on Friday to discuss the situation in Minneapolis. While Bennett failed in his moderating duties to mention new evidence that would seem to justify the ICE agent acting in self-defense, Capehart was still certain that he was in the wrong. Brooks,…

It is well known that the media likes to make themselves the main character of every story they can, but Tuesday’s PBS American Experience documentary about the atomic bombings on Japan took things to a whole new level. The main takeaway for PBS’s assembled cast of BlueSky historians is not that the narrative we tell ourselves about the necessity of the bombs is true, but rather that…

The subject line to the promo email for Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS marked the one riot the left didn’t get behind: “Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on the 5th Anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack.” Stanley is a favored guest on PBS, NPR and the left-wing MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) -- which gives a hint where PBS News lies on the ideological spectrum -- and Bianna Golodryga…

Several networks aired stories on the anniversary of the disastrous fires in Los Angeles, but none was as remarkably partisan as the PBS News Hour. In nearly nine minutes of reporting, PBS correspondent Stephanie Sy could never bring herself to utter the following words: "Democrats," "Mayor Karen Bass," or "Governor Gavin Newsom." 

Even though PolitiFact editor Katie Sanders claimed on PBS on New Year's Eve that they were gut-checking their biases, in fact they were much rougher on the Republicans in 2025 than they were on Democrats -- 85 percent of their GOP checks were "Mostly False" or worse, and only 35 percent of the rarer Democrat fact checks were "Mostly False" or worse.

The Friday night roundtable with David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart on the PBS News Hour was mostly the usual slog through how terrible things are under Donald Trump, like in Ukraine, for starters. But at the very end, Brooks uncorked an optimistic view of "social healing" in America. But it can't have anything to do with Trump?