Column: PBS Smears All Republicans as 'White With Fear'
On March 24, PBS stations debuted a long negative campaign commercial disguised as a documentary titled White With Fear, on how “America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power.” The 85-minute film starts with Nixon’s campaigns, then goes on a tear against Fox News, Islamophobia after 9/11, birtherism against Obama, the Tea Party, and then into the Trump…
OMISSION: ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Dem Congresswoman’s Ethics Trial
The House Ethics Committee held their scheduled adjudicatory hearing, more commonly referred to as a “trial”, against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Sadly, none of the main broadcast network newscasts saw fit to carry the story.
PBS Report on Olympic ‘Trans Women’ Ban Hides a Big Part of the Story
Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to bar biological men from competing as women, beginning with the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The major broadcast evening newscasts all omitted the story. PBS NewsHour picked it up, in a report containing a significant omission.
PBS: Trump Airbrushes History, Hiding Fact USA 'Wasn't Always Perfect'
As America’s semiquincentennial rolls around, is the Trump Administration whitewashing the evils of America’s history? The PBS News Hour thinks so. On their “Politics Monday” segment with pollster Amy Walter and NPR’s Tamara Keith, co-host Geoff Bennett asked his guests about the White House installing a statute of Christopher Columbus on the grounds.
Amanpour Spews on PBS: 'White Supremacy in Donald Trump's White House'
Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. on PBS showcased eponymous host Christiane Amanpour assenting to the radical view of her guest, Yale University professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: "Also ahead, “White Supremacy in Donald Trump's White House.”
Capehart Tries To Cast Doubt On Claims Of Success In Iran
PBS News Hour anchor William Brangham and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart tried on Friday to cast doubt on President Trump’s proclamations of military success. However, to do that, they had to employ a definition of success that would be impossible for any war to achieve.
PBS Teams Up With Obama SECDEF To Say U.S. Is Creating New Terrorists
The media’s love for Republicans who become Democrats is not confined to the Trump era. Before the Trump era there was former GOP senator-turned Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and he joined CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company to discuss current Secretary Pete Hegseth’s record as a wartime leader. As Amanpour invented a non-existent…
Art in Action or Leftists in Action? PBS Pushes Arts Propaganda
and democracy” as part of the paper’s larger arts coverage. It’s aired some three dozen segments since the first one in August 2024, late in the Biden Administration, then quickly pivoted to an anti-Trump ideological stance after Trump’s election. It's a convenient vehicle to sneak in even more left-wing talking points under the guise of arts coverage.
After Anti-Semitic Terrorism, PBS Warns of ‘Islamophobia in America’
Monday’s PBS News Hour fell into the footsteps of its fellow public media outlet NPR, raising alarm over purported “hateful rhetoric” by the Republican Party against Muslims. The online title: “Anti-Islamic rhetoric from GOP politicians sparks concerns over…
Lefty Print Outlets Imply NYC Bomb Thrown by ‘Anti-Islam’ Protestors
Two or three outlets publishing lazy, vague headlines perhaps could be written off as a coincidence. But the sheer uniformity across all of these outlets suggests the lack of detail was deliberate, and likely politically motivated.
On PBS, Reza Aslan Says US 'Has Been Doing The Tyrant's Work For' Iran
CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour welcomed former colleague Reza Aslan, whom she labeled an “Iranian-American religious scholar," to her Friday show to discuss what the future holds for ordinary Iranians after the current war ends. According to Aslan, it is the United States’s fault that previous protest movements have failed to topple the regime because we have “been doing the…
PBS Omits Islam From Recent Attacks, Claims WH Memes Are Un-Christian
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic podcaster David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart assembled on Friday for their usual weekly news recap and displayed a noticeable religious double standard. On one hand, Brooks suggested that various Iran War videos put out by the White House are un-Christian because they trivialize war, which naturally involves death.…
PBS Hysterics on Trump Voter ID Bill: 'Could Disenfranchise Millions'
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour offered some rare media coverage of one of President Trump’s legislative priorities, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, his popular voter ID bill based on the idea that ineligible ballots from non-citizens should not dilute the votes of American citizens, while holding every state to the same voter verification standards. The act, which has…
NewsBusters Podcast: Networks, News Apps Skipping Popular 'SAVE Act'
If journalists pose as guardians of the public interest, why do they get on the wrong side of 80-20 issues? Our study of the network newscasts and the Big Four News Apps found great disinterest in the "Save ACT," which would require proof of citizenship of voter registration and voter ID at the polls. It's overwhelmingly popular -- and being ignored.