FLASHBACK: Nets Praised Faltering Biden’s ‘Feisty,’ ‘Fiery’ 2024 SOTU

March 9th, 2025 10:07 AM

The liberal media had a predictably sour reaction to President Trump’s speech to Congress. Yet one year ago, these same networks used Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech to dishonestly proclaim the obviously faltering 81-year-old was brimming with energy and ready for a second term.

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Capehart Laments Lack Of 'Nuanced' Discussion On Men In Women's Sports

March 8th, 2025 9:42 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett on Friday that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast appearance with conservative Charlie Kirk, where he dissented from the party line, continued the nation’s alleged inability to have “nuanced and thoughtful” conversations about transgender people participating in women’s sports.

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Former WashPost Editor Fears Financial Scrutiny of Public Broadcasting

March 6th, 2025 5:51 PM

With the Trump administration and Congress focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget, there’s an effort underway to make sure public broadcasting ended up under the microscope. The notion that public broadcasting would be held to any form of accountability, including the possibility they broke federal law, was apparently beyond the pale for former Washington Post…

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‘PUBLIC’ Broadcasting Watch: PBS and NPR Trashed the Trump Speech

March 6th, 2025 9:25 AM

PBS and NPR know that Trump, Musk, and the Republicans are looking at defunding them, but they inevitably covered Trump’s speech to Congress with their usual anti-Trump tilt.

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PBS: Trump Rifling ‘Dictator’s Playbook’ Like Philippine Strongman

March 4th, 2025 5:26 PM

Monday’s PBS News Hour featured former CNN reporter Maria Ressa, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,” but her tough experiences as a journalist in the Philppines taught her the wrong lessons -- that freedom of speech on social media is responsible for the rise in authoritarianism around the world, using the left-wing excuse…

NewsBusters Podcast: 'SNL' Lets Shane Gillis ROAST Biden, Ken Burns

March 3rd, 2025 10:54 PM

Who let this happen on Saturday Night Live? Comedian Shane Gillis uncorked a monologue that mocked Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, liberal moral arrogance, and PBS documentary star Ken Burns as making dreadfully boring films. Plus some of the latest hatred of DOGE.

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'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: NPR's Tamara Keith Is NOT 'Independent'

March 2nd, 2025 9:20 AM

NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith joined the conga line of journalists protesting President Trump for taking the press-pool and press-credential powers away from the White House Correspondents Association. As a former WHCA president, Keith tweeted: “An independent press makes our leaders more accountable and our nation stronger.” Keith is not independent. NPR and PBS both rely on her…

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PBS Tries Blackmail on GOP Budget Chair: Job Loss in Your District?

March 1st, 2025 10:01 PM

On Wednesday’s PBS News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tried emotional blackmail to stop spending cuts – any kind of spending cut – in an interview with Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) chairman of the House Budget Committee. After challenging Arrington on Medicaid spending in the just-passed House GOP budget framework (“….Is it possible for you to guarantee that none of the 70 million people…

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PBS Freaks Trump Entering 'Sinister Territory' Amid Press Pool Changes

March 1st, 2025 9:50 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was not interested in subtlety, nuance, or level-headedness as they discussed recent media news. Host Amna Nawaz wondered if “we’re in much more sinister territory now” due to the changes surrounding the White House press pool. Both Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks agreed,…

PBS, Stelter Agree About Trump’s Kremlin-Style ‘Chilling Effect’ on AP

February 27th, 2025 10:26 PM

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour featured guest Brian Stelter, editor of CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter (and reliable white knight for the mainstream media) to discuss the “chilling effect” of the Trump Administration blocking the Associated Press from the White House pool of reporters.

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PBS Defends IRS From Trump Firings: Helps 'Ultra-Wealthy' Evade Taxes

February 25th, 2025 11:02 PM

When PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron Lopez spoke on Monday with the recently resigned IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel, it was the tax-funded news network’s latest defense against DOGE’s cuts in federal spending and staff reductions. PBS dutifully crammed the hypothetical budget cut highway with awful-sounding blockades, and added an old-fashioned soak-the-rich twist.

PBS Soft on Terror? Hezbollah’s Slain Boss Revered as ‘Father Figure'

February 25th, 2025 12:05 PM

PBS News Mideast “special correspondent” Simona Foltyn reported from Lebanon for Sunday'sPBS News “special correspondent” Simona Foltyn reported from Lebanon for Sunday's PBS News Weekend, from a funeral service celebrating the life and legacy of….Hassan Nasrallah, who led the Iran-backed anti-Israel terrorist group Hezbollah before dying months ago under Israeli bombardment. Foltyn…

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POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

February 24th, 2025 12:17 PM

The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is….

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Brooks: People Will Die Because Trump Admin Wants To 'Break Things'

February 22nd, 2025 9:57 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks is theoretically supposed to be PBS News Hour’s conservative half of its weekly Friday news recap with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, he constantly fails to live up to this arrangement, and this Friday was no exception, as he alleged that people all over the world will die because the Trump administration simply…