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PBS: Amanpour Laments Media ‘Kiss-the-Ring Progression to Mar-a-Lago’

December 19th, 2024 10:11 PM

Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour talked to former Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron about Trump’s “massive chilling effect” on the press on Wednesday, and added another metaphor to describe the media supposedly bowing down to Trump’s threats (since when!): Amanpour: "...we're seeing quite a lot of media and like the tech streaming titans and all the…

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The Brian Stelter Award for Worst Quote of the Year

December 18th, 2024 10:45 AM

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and declared a winner.

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PBS, NYT Fears ABC’s Trump Settlement Is ‘A Really Chilling Message'

December 18th, 2024 10:26 AM

The PBS NewsHour was in full panic on Monday evening after ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by Donald Trump, offering scaremongering with this online headline: “ABC News settlement with Trump raises concerns about press freedom in his 2nd term.” PBS’s guest, New York Times reporter David Enrich, hyped up ABC’s supposedly strong case, ABC’s decision “sends a really chilling…

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PBS Mourns as AOC Is Annihilated in House Oversight Committee Vote

December 17th, 2024 11:10 PM

The DOGE chainsaw won’t officially rumble to life for another 34 days, but one of its potential targets insists on calling attention to itself. The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), although taxpayer-funded, insists on pretending it is MSNBC as it covers House Democrat committee chair races.

Recalling Media Hostility for Bill Buckley & Conservative Movement

December 15th, 2024 10:01 AM

For decades, the liberal media establishment showed open hostility toward conservative powerhouse William F. Buckley, as well as for the broader conservative movement he helped launch.

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PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'

December 14th, 2024 9:45 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v

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PBS 'Expert' Rips Hegseth Cross Tattoo, Compares Him to Mass Shooters

December 14th, 2024 6:06 AM

Thursday’s PBS News Hour welcomed back Brad Onishi (host of the podcast "Straight White American Jesus") to warn once again about scary Christian conservatism, this time encapsulated in Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, interviewed by the show’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez. Onishi compared Hegseth to mass shooters and to white nationalists…

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PBS Warns of Rising Misogyny Under Trump Based on 24-Hour Lefty Study

December 12th, 2024 10:26 PM

After Trump’s convincing election victory last month, the PBS News Hour is finding its far-left feet again. On Tuesday night it treated a silly left-wing study from a discredited lefty scaremongering outfit as a disturbing revelation about Trump-fueled misogyny, based on some tasteless playground humor being spread around the internet for shock value.

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PBS Attacks SCOTUS for Not Deferring to the Left's Gender 'Experts'

December 12th, 2024 1:00 PM

New York Times columnist Masha Gessen joined NPR host Michel Martin on Wednesday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on PBS, where he attacked the Supreme Court for not listening to the left’s preferred “experts” on the case involving Tennessee’s ban on so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.

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PBS Blames X After CEO's Murder, Not Left-Wing Ghouls on Bluesky

December 11th, 2024 12:57 PM

The PBS News Hour avoided the nihilist-leftist take of too many media and social media liberals in its Monday evening segment on the capture of a suspect in the murder in Manhattan of UnitedHealthCare chief executive Brian Thompson. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett…

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PBS Plays Up 'Politicized' Penny Case, Some See 'Reckless Vigilante'

December 10th, 2024 10:32 AM

The acquittal of Daniel Penny disturbed the ivory tower virtue of the PBS News Hour on Monday evening. Penny, who intervened on a New York City subway in the summer of 2023 when violent homeless addict Jordan Neely threatened to kill other passengers, had been put on trial for his civic heroism by an otherwise soft-on-crime Manhattan prosecutor, Alvin Bragg.

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CALL DOGE: Taxpayer-Funded PBS Thinks NBC Wasn't Hard Enough on Trump

December 10th, 2024 1:11 AM

Over at taxpayer-funded PBS, there was quite the bit of grousing over the level of intensity of the interview of President Elect Donald Trump that aired on NBC’s Meet the Press. As they complained about the lack of fact-checking, they demonstrated why both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS should be among the first targets of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE…

Amanpour Touts 'Amazing' Hillary and Michelle Cover Stories for VOGUE

December 8th, 2024 9:27 PM

On Friday, Christiane Amanpour’s show on PBS touted a new exhibition by Vogue magazine on the history of the runway show in London, “taking visitors for a catwalk down memory lane.” Then they replayed a 2019 interview with Vogue editor Anna Wintour gushing over wonderful Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama on the cover. This felt like another diss at Melania…

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PBS Promotes Pro-Pedophilia 'Pioneer,' Opponents Offer Only 'Vitriol'

December 8th, 2024 2:41 PM

As the incoming Trump administration considers defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the PBS News Hour just keeps hitting the accelerator on their overwhelmingly one-sided promotion of transgenderism. On Friday night, PBS anchor William Brangham supportively interviewed transgender Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke (D), best known for a bill called the "Take Pride Act,"…