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Hating GOP, Hailing Democrats: PBS’s Very Biased Convention Coverage

September 4th, 2024 10:00 AM

The Republican and Democratic conventions are over, and it’s clear which party was the favorite of taxpayer-supported PBS. Not even the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump quelled the overwhelming negativity with which the PBS panel greeted the Republican Party Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee in July. Yet a month later, Vice-President Kamala Harris and a familiar crew of…

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PBS Shows Walz-to-Walz Bias at Minnesota State Fair: ‘Dad In Plaid’

September 4th, 2024 7:54 AM

Taxpayer-supported PBS snuck in some old-fashioned Democratic politicking under the guise of a soft Labor Day feature from the Minnesota State Fair, that just happened to have been blessed with a visit from off the campaign trail (yeah, right!) by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate: Anchor John Yang: "The Minnesota State Fair draws more daily visitors than any other state…

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NPR Analyst Sees Media Fact-Check Double Standard -- in Trump's Favor!

September 2nd, 2024 4:18 PM

The latest Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was most notable for NPR senior political editor Domenico Montanaro's ludicrously imbalanced fact-checking of Trump vs. Harris and host Jeffrey Goldberg’s accusations of double standards in media coverage of the campaign -- in favor of Trump!

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PBS: Conservatives Ruining DEI for 'Trans Workers at Tractor Supply'

September 1st, 2024 6:09 PM

Taxpayer-supported PBS mourned success by conservatives on Wednesday's News Hour in pushing back with consumer activism against the flagrantly dishonest "diversity-equity-inclusion" drives in corporate America. PBS used the term "conservative" six times, but never found an ideological label for the Left. They were "pro-DEI folks" pushing "diversity initiatives" for people like "trans…

PBS Hosts NYT Reporter Boosting ‘Kid’ Jihadists' vs Israeli Occupiers

August 31st, 2024 10:44 PM

Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted on Thursday’s PBS News Hour as her expert Steven Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent and former Jerusalem bureau chief and fiercely pro-Palestinian voice for years at the paper. They spoke about Israel killing young Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed Jaber in a West Bank action.

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'One Of The Lowest Moments': PBS Attacks Trump's Arlington Visit

August 31st, 2024 10:00 AM

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr and New York Times counterpart David Brooks agreed on Friday’s PBS News Hour that Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery was “really one of the lowest political moments” they could recall.

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‘Joyful,’ ‘Happy’ Harris-Walz Vs. ‘Dark,’ ‘Dangerous’ Trump-Vance

August 31st, 2024 9:00 AM

The following are the most egregious examples of leftist journalists holding up the Harris-Walz ticket, while trashing Trump-Vance over the last month.

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PBS Pounces on Trump ‘Conspiracies' Arlington, Gives Dems Pass on Lies

August 31st, 2024 7:19 AM

As the election looms and the media burrows deeper into the bag for the Democratic presidential ticket, the online headlines at PBS News Hour are getting sharper and more partisan, like this one to accompany a Wednesday evening segment by the show’s most partisan reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez: “Harris kicks off Georgia tour as Trump posts grievances on social media.” The contrast was…

PBS Panel Hails DNC ‘Centrist Republican Energy,’ Phony Dem ‘Freedom'

August 28th, 2024 10:40 AM

The panelists on the post-Democratic convention edition of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic’s Friday night political roundtable offered an assortment of bias, lauding the Harris campaign the night after her acceptance speech, while also praising Michelle Obama as “the most admired woman on Earth” and maybe the whole solar system and spouting about the Democratic embrace of “…

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PolitiFact Pleases PBS: Democrat Convention Much More Factual Than RNC

August 27th, 2024 5:49 AM

PBS and their "independent fact-checker" partners at PolitiFact can agree: the Democratic convention was much more factual than the Republican convention. So Democrats didn't just corner the market on "joy" and "electricity," but apparently on facticity. 

PBS Confesses: Dems Say, We Say ‘Reproductive Rights,’ Not ‘Abortion'

August 25th, 2024 1:37 PM

One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun…

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PBS Hails DNC's 'Patriotism' Versus RNC's 'Weighted Blanket'

August 24th, 2024 9:35 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks recapped the Democratic National Convention on Friday’s PBS News Hour by contrasting its “jubilation” and “patriotism” with the “hate” that came out of the RNC’s “weighted blanket.”

Silly PBS: Harris Makes Dems ‘Feel Seen,’ ‘Trump Derangement’ Not Real

August 24th, 2024 8:54 AM

PBS opened its fourth and final night of coverage from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with reporting from the PBS News Hour, with congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins, reporting from D.C. a segment on the Republican’s “counterprogramming” of the convention. She proceeded to defensively explain Trump rhetoric to her viewers as if they were toddlers. Once the actual…

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Theater of the Absurd: The Worst Media Outbursts from the DNC

August 24th, 2024 8:00 AM

There was an overload of absurd, obnoxious and over-top outbursts from leftist journalists during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The NewsBusters team worked literally day and night to track them down. The following are the worst outbursts from leftist journalists during the Democratic National Convention.