Reporter Alarmed Oklahoma ‘Narrowing Definitions’ for ‘Man,’ ‘Woman'

August 19th, 2023 3:40 PM

PBS “communities correspondent” Adam Kemp authored a report Wednesday from Oklahoma City for the PBS NewsHour website, alarmed that the state of Oklahoma is officially insisting upon biological reality, as opposed to transgender-centered identity propaganda: “This new Oklahoma executive order narrowly defines ‘woman.’” Tax-supported PBS has shown no interest in providing a balanced…

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PBS: Dems Should Be More ‘Grateful’ Biden Is Their ’24 Candidate

August 19th, 2023 12:05 PM

On Friday’s NewsHour, PBS’s “conservative” pundit David Brooks sound like a Biden re-election flack, touting the President’s “incredibly strong economic recovery,” his “pretty good international peacekeeping efforts,” and who “sends off all the right cultural messages.....Democrats are not grateful enough for what they have.”

The Shameless Media Partisans Who Praised Biden’s Afghan Debacle

August 19th, 2023 8:30 AM

Two years ago this week, even liberal journalists were appalled by the disastrous incompetence of the Biden administration regarding the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yet quickly the most shameless partisan journalists identified themselves by deciding to praise, rather than criticize, the disaster that all could see with their own eyes.

PBS Blasts 'Inhumane' Gov. Abbott Border Step With Lib Rep, Lib Journo

August 18th, 2023 5:05 PM

A segment on the supposedly “inhumane treatment” of would-be migrants along the Texas-Mexico border under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s program “Operation Lone Star,” which aired on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday evening, was a perfect example of the taxpayer-funded network’ coverage of current events.

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PBS vs. PBS? NewsHour Assumes Trump Phone Call Guilt, Amanpour Doesn't

August 17th, 2023 9:30 PM

So just what was then-president Trump thinking when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2021, and asked him to “find 11,780 votes” in Georgia, which if really there, would have put Trump over Biden in the close Georgia race? NewsHour congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins seemed confident she knew just what Trump was thinking in her Tuesday evening…

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PBS Alarm Over Indoctrination, LGBTQ Rights in Catholic Charter School

August 16th, 2023 10:00 PM

Overreact much? The PBS News Weekend show set off klaxon alarms Sunday evening about the pseudo-constitutional concept of "separation of church and state," based on the establishment of an online Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation. Host John Yang introduced his segment under a graphic that read “Church and State.”

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PBS Cheers on Bidenomics vs Trump's 'Tax Giveaways to the Ultra Rich'

August 16th, 2023 1:55 PM

On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez acted as mouthpiece for the Biden administration to trumpet the so-called success of Bidenomics, tied to the president’s recent campaign trek to Milwaukee marking the anniversary of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. For this partially taxpayer-funded report, Barron-Lopez cited the Democratic vice-president…

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS Uses NPR to Blow Off GOP Anger at David Weiss

August 14th, 2023 11:23 PM

Republicans were angry that the Biden Justice Department "promoted" David Weiss to Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. But PBS (and NPR's legal reporter) didn't think House Republicans were worth quoting or mentioning.

PBS, ProPublica Insult Justice Thomas:‘He's Always Wanted to Get Paid’

August 14th, 2023 6:03 PM

The Thursday evening PBS NewsHour showcased the latest attack on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with a two-pronged attack, hosting Joel Anderson of the Slate podcast "Slow Burn" and Brett Murphy from ProPublica to talk about that outlet’s latest glossy attack on the conservative Supreme Court justice. Using ProPublica’s obsessive scoops as ammunition, PBS has…

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PBS, Atlantic Team to Tar DeSantis: Autocrat Dishing Violent Rhetoric

August 14th, 2023 6:32 AM

PBS’s weekly political roundtable show Washington Week has a new “editorial partner” and a new name but the same liberal philosophy. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic monthly, is now moderator of the awkwardly rebranded Washington Week with The Atlantic. Under Goldberg’s tenure, The Atlantic has turned into a Democratic hive, and he’…

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Capehart Mourns GOP Voters Being Fed a 'Anti-Biden Family Diet'

August 12th, 2023 10:03 AM

Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.

PBS NewsHour Skips New Biden Foreign Money Memo, Keeps Hounding Trump

August 10th, 2023 9:43 PM

Another Biden family payment scandal meant another goose egg of coverage on public television’s flagship evening news program the PBS NewsHour. On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer released records detailing payments Biden family members have received from oligarchs in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. The revelations were predictably ignored by the “big three”…

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PBS Warns GOP Trying To 'Reinstitute Many Of The Barriers' To Voting

August 10th, 2023 10:30 AM

For the latest installment of their documentary series, The Human Footprint, PBS took a look at the history of cotton from both a political and scientific perspective. On the former, host and evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton warned that there attempts to “reinstitute many of the barriers that long kept African-Americans from wielding political power.”

COVID Uptick Sends New York Times and PBS Clutching Their Masks Again

August 8th, 2023 11:43 PM

After three and a half years, there’s still no immunity from COVID hysteria at the New York Times or PBS NewsHour. A slight, predictable summer uptick in COVID cases (up from very low levels) caused a mini-frenzy in the liberal media, which were always eager to enjoin citizens to “mask up” and get their umpteenth booster shot while shunning other people. Both outlets relied on…